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...weren't presented in an organized way," says chairman Garrett Boone. His solution: a U-shape layout that "allows people to pass all the departments in the store, both on the sides and in the center." Ikea, based in Helsingborg, Sweden, directs shoppers around its vast showrooms on preset paths but also allows them to circumvent the traffic pattern with strategically placed "cut-throughs." Customers like them because they provide not only increased mobility but also a clandestine, blows-against-the-empire kind of thrill...
...added parental controls, like those AOL has offered for years, but MSN's are better. In addition to choosing from three preset levels for access to Web browsing, e-mail and instant messaging, parents can customize which sites their kids can and cannot visit. When children try to go to a restricted site, they have the option of e-mailing their parents for permission. And at the end of the week, parents get an activity log detailing exactly which sites their kids visited and how much time they spent there. AOL promises a similar feature--AOL Guardian--by year...
...goal, quotas can sacrifice quality for the sake of quantity; the need to meet an arbitrary level may lead to the acceptance of lower caliber students simply to satisfy a predetermined necessary quantity. Institutions of higher learning should be cognizant of diversity but should not seek to meet any preset percentages, no matter how vaguely they define what would be considered acceptable numbers...
...underneath the imposing edifice of equations and graphs, neoclassical economics still rests on several foundational beliefs of what constitutes human nature. These beliefs are illustrated in the infamous economic model of how humans behave, Economic Man. Economic Man is a rational individual with preset preferences who constantly seeks to maximize his own utility—happiness—through consumption of resources. Is this conception of human nature and human happiness accurate? Does it accurately describe you or the people you know? Most empirical evidence and just plain common sense suggests that humans are not rational in this way, that...
...judges' access to skaters. The judges know who the top athletes are; they know who won last year's world championships and other key events. So why is it necessary to let judges see practices before the competition? Their votes should be based on each effort, not on preset notions they form during practice sessions...