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Enter Cubicle 2.0. At Herman Miller, it's called My Studio and is aesthetically reminiscent of the iPod. Framed by brushed steel and clear plastic, the pods are separated by low partitions that slide open for passing paper clips and gum. An occupant of a 6-ft. by 8-ft. cube could invite two colleagues to perch on the horseshoe-shaped desk. Storage seems sufficient: files tuck underfoot, cables hide behind a panel--there's even a closet. And here's the kicker: it has a sliding, shoji-like door. "Privacy is key to a worker's sense of territory...
...suffocate my patient in here, officers"-got a bit of a smile out of them. Gasping, spitting and biting, the patient came up for air long enough to curse everyone and say that he would find and kill each of them. This got his face shoved back into the plastic again, but now he was on his back; I was sure they were going to break his neck. So I started the biggest IV I could and just pumped in morphine until he shut up. We spent the rest of the night with the senior residents sewing up his femoral...
...like putting in more recycling bins. One day she came into the office and said, "Why do we have this shrink wrap on the caddies that hold our bars?" And we had absolutely no idea. It was just the way we'd been doing things. So we took the plastic off. We saved 90,000 lbs. of plastic and $450,000 a year...
...especially harsh methods. In one case, according to medical records obtained by TIME, a 20-year old named Yusuf al-Shehri, jailed since he was 16, was regularly strapped into a specially designed feeding chair that immobilizes the body at the legs, arms, shoulders and head. Then a plastic tube that is 50% larger, and more painful to insert, than the commonly used variety was inserted up through his nose and down his throat, carrying a nutritional formula into his stomach...
...transcending his Dallas boyhood as the son of poor immigrant Jews, he produced his first hit, Burke's Law, in 1963, presaging a gift for what he called "mind candy." He made more than 3,000 shows in his five-decade career, including TV movies (The Boy in the Plastic Bubble), drama (Family) and addictive soaps (Charlie's Angels; Dynasty; Beverly Hills, 90210) that invigorated watercooler chatter but sometimes drew critical derision. "The knocks," he said, "bother you. But you have a choice of proving yourself to 300 critics or 30 million fans...