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...decibels (the unit for measuring sound) and distracting noise 30, the best solution is not to add expensive soundproofing but to increase the background noise by 15 or more decibels. In a Rhode Island hospital, when doctors complained that conversations carried from one office to the next, a pencil-sized cylinder was installed in the air-conditioning outlets. "The resulting steady whoosh raised the level of background noise and made the offices quieter-freer of distraction," said Newman. At M.I.T., when the library's noisy air blowers were turned off, students looked up whenever a phone rang or someone...
...have played the fool," he would say when all his money was gone, "but here is my resource." Then he would hold up a pencil-and everyone in the room would know that with that and a box of colors Tom Rowlandson could earn whatever money he needed...
...prewar product line, Matsushita has added a staggering array of new products including television sets, tape recorders, hearing aids, mechanical massagers, electric pencil sharpeners and electrically heated trousers; now he is developing a home freezer and a line of computers...
...none of the answers particularly appeals to you, try not to let it ruin your day. Most of them don't appeal to us, either, but that's journalism. So if noneseems right, take the least wrongest, or guees, or say the hell with it and throw your pencil across the room in a blind rage...
...next cheap kick is already on the scene. Some fast-drying marking pencils contain a solvent like those in the plastic glues, are more inconspicuous for sniffing. A Washington, D.C., public school music teacher told recently of a boy in her class who ordinarily never sang a note. One day she noticed him sniffing a marking pencil behind his songbook: "Then he got up and sang like a bird...