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...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...
...place. "Very unusual--not very inviting," she sniffs, eyeing checkout counters that seem to pose a barrier to entry. "Where's the produce?" It is then that we realize we have come in via the exit. We re-enter through the correct door, and at once the layout conforms to the immutable laws of grocery-store geometry. The colorful produce and flowers pull us into a world of plenty. Now Nestle is in her element. An N.Y.U. professor, Nestle (rhymes with wrestle) has just published What to Eat: An Aisle-by-Aisle Guide to Savvy Food Choices and Good Eating...
...worked in animation, Katin has had a lifetime of practicing her visual narrative skills. Working mostly in graphite pencil, the monotone palate evokes the grey days of Nazi rule in a past desaturated of color. Instead, Katin uses shading to create detail and rich texture. She keeps the layout simple, with rarely more than six panels per page. When the action heats up, characters will burst out of their borders, making the page more dynamic...
...lead the way. PETER ACKROYD'S THAMES On the same bridge - the first to be built in London in more than 100 years - bone up on the history of the river and the city it slices at a neat little exhibition put together by London biographer Peter Ackroyd. Its layout mirrors the capital's: displays on the bridge's east side map the dark, grimy, industrial face; cross to the west side for the regal and religious. TALKS Head to Southwark Cathedral for the "sermon" by Renzo Piano, co-architect of Paris' Pompidou Center, on the grand design...
...Detective Brian Spellman to "make frequent checks of the [DeWolfe] dorm for the possible detection of marijuana or visible signs of distribution," according to police documents. Police began monitoring the room three weeks before the students were charged. Spellman wrote in a police report, "I familiarized myself with the layout of the 10 DeWolfe building and the exact location of [the] room." He wrote that on Jan. 6, he detected the scent of marijuana emanating from the students' second-floor window...