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...workers tend to be highly resentful of automated supervision and frequently find ways to circumvent or sabotage it. Harley Shaiken, associate professor of labor and technology at the University of California at San Diego, tells in his 1984 book Work Transformed that in one particular factory, workers learned to fool the computer monitor by leaving the motors on their machines running even when the operators were away on extended coffee breaks. In the end, though, the computer caught up with them by detecting that the idling machines were using less electricity than normal...
...what being a Red Sox fan is all about. Many Bostonians will go to their graves muttering about Bucky Dent's pop-fly home run, Johnny Pesky's incompetent relay or the team's primal curse: the sale of Babe Ruth to the Yankees to raise money for damn-fool Broadway shows. Still, there is grudging ground for hope in 1986. Wade Boggs, baseball's best hitter, has been flirting with .400 all year. Boston's pitching staff has the best earned-run average in the league. Rich Gedman has turned out to be a catcher. Jim Rice is having...
...exhibition space and two theaters designed by the firm Beyer Blinder Belle. A broad entrance ramp covered by a vast canopy, original elements of the main building, will be rebuilt, but in unmistakably modern materials and forms. "We are trying to emulate the original designs but not trying to fool people in a Disney World sense," says Brooklyn-born Architect Michael Adlerstein, the enthusiastic Park Service manager of the Ellis Island restoration. "If it looks old, it is old." By the way, offers Adlerstein, his Russian mother came through Ellis as an infant...
...other hand, a President can fool only some of the cameras some of the time. The camera tends to be a truth-telling instrument. Reagan has wonderful theatrical instincts, but he could not feign the qualities of his character that came across when he honored the Challenger crew, for example, or when he and his wife hugged every one of the family members of the 101st Airborne Division soldiers killed last year in the crash in Newfoundland...
Adding to the hilarity is the dean of students, Mr. Rooney (Jeffrey Jones), who has decided that Ferris, the darling of his school, has made a fool of him one too many times. Rooney is modeled on a mixture of Inspector Clouseau and his boss, who, as you may remember, in one movie aspired to kill his clueless detective (you even get to hear a refrain of the Pink Panther theme...