Word: interiorities
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...long been known that sound can alter emotions and behavior. So why not use it to amplify profits? Treasure's agency acts like an audio interior designer, removing invasive noises or rescoring unappealing music. It seems simple, but while many businesses have mastered the art of influencing shoppers through sight (with alluring displays) and smell (say, by piping the odor of fresh coffee throughout a store), few have focused on the smart use of sound, says retail psychologist Tim Denison of the British Retail Think Tank. But that's changing. U.S. firm Muzak used to be the butt of jokes...
...heads together and fashioned a new one from an aluminum tin. (It stood up to the propane for almost three minutes.) Then on went the hamburgers and hot dogs. They too were mutilated a bit when we poked them to check the pinkness of the interior, but after running through a few packages of meat, we four grill novices had it down to a science. As we lay back and munched on our fare doused with condiments courtesy of the mess hall, we all had the same accomplished looks on our faces...
...great success for the wrong people? Terrorists may take pride in forcing more and more Western governments to establish a state of strict surveillance. The German Minister of the Interior is about to tear down almost everything that protects the privacy of citizens. Thus terrorists help to make people feel safe but permanently imprisoned. Surely, not a very pleasant way of existence. Hans Gerbig, BATZENHOFEN, GERMANY...
...innumerable, appear at the most inconvenient times and create panic and terror," he said in a 2001 interview. "But I have learned that if I can master the negative forces and harness them to my chariot, then they can work to my advantage." Through his unforgiving artistry, the interior monologues of a tortured intellectual achieved an international impact. His films spoke not just to the self-absorption of the therapy generation, but to the human quest to discover the worst and the strongest about ourselves, to make that journey into the darkness with no guide but our need to know...
...helping did not want them there. He and other troops suspected some of the police were members of the Mahdi Army, the militia of radical anti-American Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. That's not unusual, given that the largely Shi'ite personnel of Iraq's Ministry of Interior have long been seen as a de facto wing of the Mahdi Army. National police are suspected of taking part in the militia's sectarian killings in Baghdad. And in southern Iraq, where al-Sadr is powerful, infiltration of U.S.-trained Iraqi units is common. But even the wariest Americans...