Word: interiorities
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...cubicle. Its high, thick walls were too isolating. Its lighting and layout were designed for paper pushing, not laptop tapping. And--unbelievably--employers thought it took up too much space. A typical workstation in the 1970s measured 12 ft. by 12 ft., according to the American Society of Interior Designers. By 1995 it had shrunk to 10 ft. by 10 ft. Today's cubicles average 6 ft. by 8 ft., and space planners say they can cut an additional 21% without affecting productivity--or increasing the crime rate...
...militants would let Shalit go if Israel freed female prisoners, those under 18 and some who have served long sentences - a much smaller group. By the weekend, Israeli government ministers were sending mixed messages: Public Security Minister Avi Dichter said Israel might be willing to release some prisoners, while Interior Minister Ronnie Bar-On insisted it absolutely would not. Noam Shalit believes that releasing prisoners could be the best way to bring his son home. "Hopefully [Olmert] will release them for Gilad," he says. But with fighting continuing, it's hard to stay optimistic. "I don't think that Gilad...
...American pharmaceutical companies came out in ardent opposition to sharing their secret recipes. They claimed intellectual property was violated. But what about Hassan? Or his brother? And the nameless thousands?Even though the Food and Drug Administration eventually caved, these drugs are still conspicuously absent from the African interior. About 500,000 Africans receive the antiretroviral medications they seek, but 4.7 million still need them. Our current efforts are simply insufficient. It is not enough to share precious intellectual property rights. We need to be willing to aggressively counteract AIDS with all the ammunition our trillion-dollar pharmaceuticals can provide.Our...
...conservation education.The five-member panel that makes up the Arizona Game and Fish Commission is the political arm of the state’s Game and Fish department. Game and Fish controls all of Arizona’s state parks; essentially, it is the state’s interior department, and it regulates everything from hunting to setting aside natural areas for protection. The Commission’s Chairman is Joe Melton, a man from Yuma with a deep drawl who (if his dialect at the meeting is representative of habit) seems to be under the impression that first-, second...
...Soon after Peretz spoke, Palestinian Interior Minister Saeed Siyam issued a call to arms for all members of the various Palestinian security forces, urging them to band together against the Israelis and honor what he called their "religious and moral duty to stand up to this aggression and cowardly Zionist invasion." Other Palestinian officials appealed to the international community to do something to forestall further bloodshed. For those around the world hoping that the very obvious perils of escalation will walk all parties back from the precipice, Thursday's events - and the absence of any sign of significant international intervention...