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...going. Or I might be, but not right now. I'm in a regular office at a regular computer, working on a story and walking. Much like many of my stories, I'm not actually going anywhere. I'm on a treadmill, which has been combined with a desk...
...treadmill desk could be the most useful juxtaposition since PEOPLE magazine put a scratch-and-sniff patch on its Sexiest Men Alive pictures. Like the holy grail of time savers, the walking desk doubles down on the stuff you have to do, freeing you up for the things you want to do--specifically, not work and not exercise. But can it be so simple? Could office work be, as the brochure puts it, "a moving experience"? I spent a few days on a Steelcase Walkstation, one of several desk-treadmill combos available, to find...
...desk has two parts: a table with adjustable height--low for when you're sitting, high for when you're walking or standing, superhigh for when you need to rest your chin on the wrist pad--and the treadmill, which is operated by buttons on the desk. It's nifty, simple and about $5,000 total, so some people have MacGyvered setups like it on their own. The first thing it does after you turn it on is ask your weight, which is a little confrontational. It then asks your weight every time...
...Neighbor drops by to see what the pounding noise is. Wonders if today was the best day for me to wear heels. Thinks desk needs a TV. I explain to her I'm working...
...Official Zhang Kangqi lives in his office. Five feet from his desk sit a single bed, a small table and a television. The focal point of the room is a pencil drawing of the family he lost on May 12. An art student drew it from the ID cards of Zhang's wife Wu Shanshan, 33, and their daughter Zhang Duo, 6. All other photos were lost in the rubble of Beichuan, a mountain town where 15,000 perished. An 8-ft.-tall (2.5 m) fence now surrounds the town to keep people out, lest they be harmed by still...