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Still, for all its temptations, going it alone may not be your thing. But imagine this: it's Monday, 7 a.m. The big conference with the boys in Osaka is in 45 minutes. You've got to go through the spreadsheets again, rehearse your talking points and check your e-mail from the lawyers. Why are you lying in bed? Because you can. With 11 million telecommuters in the U.S. today, corporate America is sending a message: stay home. By the year 2000, the number of telecommuters are expected to reach around 30 million as the technology gets even cheaper...
...Meier earlier in the week, Renzo Piano, one of the world's foremost architects and the man responsible for the planned revamping of the Harvard University Art Museums, spoke to a packed Piper Auditorium last Thursday. Famous for his work in such major spaces as Houston's Menil Collection, Osaka's Kansai Airport and Paris's Centre Georges Pompidou, Piano's speech attracted so large a crowd that not only was the auditorium packed, but even the secondary broadcast room was standing-room only. People had to be turned away in droves. Perhaps the situation called for an architect...
Thanks largely to Chermayeff's passion and innovative eye, big-city aquariums are more popular than ever. His sparkling creations in Boston; Baltimore, Md.; Osaka; and Chattanooga, Tenn., have revitalized stagnant waterfronts and are pulling in huge crowds. The Genoa Aquarium, created with architect Renzo Piano, is Italy's fourth most popular tourist attraction and is drawing more visitors each year than the Uffizi...
...Matsushita comes [to Harvard] every year," Murray says, referring to the Osaka-based electronics conglomerate. But Murray was unable to think of any other Japanese company currently recruiting. She says that "many more" Japanese companies came to recruit during the mid to late '80s. Job growth has shifted to Hong Kong, she says...
...irresponsible attitude. It is not only Japan's voters who don't accept responsibility; politicians, bureaucrats and corporations also seem quite good at evading responsibilities they are paid to shoulder. Have we been spoiled for too long by a half-century of postwar peace and prosperity? KAYOKO KITADA Osaka, Japan Via E-mail...