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...employees are suing Union Pacific Railroad over the casual way the company used the numbers to ID workers--a practice that became a real issue in April when a computer with the names and numbers of 30,000 employees was stolen. In May someone made off with a laptop containing the SSNs of 26.5 million people on file at the Department of Veterans Affairs--which suggests that it's more important than ever to keep your number under wraps. A lot of groups ask for it; very few really need it. Just be ready for a fight. "You're going...
From the ethereal melodies to the beats layered upon beats, The Eraser is full of Radiohead music--dark, dystopian, oddly beautiful--minus the other members of Radiohead. (It was composed mostly on a laptop.) In spots, the band is missed. The Clock creates some grinding tension but never figures out how to release it, while Black Swan eddies around a chorus ("This is f___ed up, f___ed up") that hardly mines new emotional territory. You can sense Yorke's grasping for something, and with the help of producer Nigel Godrich, who oversaw Beck's midcareer-crisis record, Sea Change...
...millennium turned, however, it became clear there were issues with the 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...
...most indelible experiences of my life. As usual, he was right. I started the half-day process sitting across a table from two examiners, both senior neurosurgeons. Laid out on the tabletop between us were models of a skull, a head and a spine, as well as several laptop computers filled with brain-scan images. After a quick handshake, the fun began...
...limited to Muzak on the blackened channels of the TV, or the tinkling of a lobby pianist. Nowadays, of course, you can carry your entire CD collection around with you on an iPod?and there's also Internet radio with thousands of online stations available for free through your laptop. Don't know how to choose between them? Here are four surefire hits for while you're on the road...