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...wants to beat the crap out of those who use said phrase). Just about everyone has to put up with a Bill Lumbergh-like boss, who incessantly sends memos about asinine things like TPS reports. Just about everyone is frustrated by fax machines and the “PC LOAD LETTER” error message. Just about everyone has a Milton—the deranged loner who is given odd jobs to keep him busy. And just about everyone has a Samir or a Michael Bolton—co-workers who become friends through shared agony and disdain of repetitive...
...Twenty already! I'd done nothing. On further reflection, I thought that entering my twenties meant I had begun something irrevocably serious at last-gone through a sea-change, crossed a Rubicon. All birthdays with zeroes will tend to make you feel that way. Wait til you get a load of sixty...
...Mies insisted that the architect must surrender his urge to add personal "touches," but he broke his rule on some of his greatest buildings. The slender steel mullions that run up the walls of the Seagram Building and provide its rhapsodic vertical flight, have no structural purpose. The real load-bearing steel is buried behind them in the flame-retarding concrete required by New York fire codes. Mies applied the exterior steel because he liked how it looked. He was right...
...workers. When the drinking age went up, the spigot wasn't turned off, it was simply moved underground--to homes or cars or frat-house basements--where no adult could keep an eye on things. When kids who are drinking on the sly do venture out, they often "pre-load" first, fueling up on as much alcohol as they can hold before the evening begins so that the buzz lasts as long as possible. As for the reduction in traffic fatalities? Skeptics believe it may have less to do with changing the drinking age than with the new mores about...
...arrival last September of Kencell, the first privately owned phone company in Kenya, has helped. It's only licensed to sell cell phones but because many business people rely solely on their cell - whose digital switching makes calls go through a lot more quickly - and that eases the load on landlines, making them easier to use. (Unfortunately, the increasing popularity of the Internet is clogging the system up again). Patchy cell phone coverage should get better, but until the landline system is privatized, the service to average Kenyans won't improve much. Neighboring Tanzania and Uganda have both partially privatized...