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...task. CubeDoors--portable, retractable, mesh-weave panels from CubeSmart in Fort Worth, Texas--block entry into cubicles, effectively saying "Busy" to would-be interlopers. In 2003 the company sold 1,500 "doors," which cost $30 each. Sales are up 300% this year. New on the market last year: the Quiet Technology sound-masking system from office-furniture maker Herman Miller. Designed for open-layout work environments, the system renders speech beyond a 12-ft. to 16-ft. radius unintelligible with "pink noise" technology embedded in the furniture. To a user, it sounds like gentle whooshing. What it does is match...
...firm in New York City, use instant messaging. A simple switch to DO NOT DISTURB status signals that coworkers shouldn't phone, email or stop by to chat. "There was never a memo on it. We all just started using the technology," says CEO Jonathan Spira. Finding peace and quiet should always be so easy...
...losing him in the Tora Bora mountains, Pakistani and Afghan intelligence officials claim that the trail is cold. The last credible sighting of the gaunt terrorist in chief was more than a year ago along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, according to a senior Pakistani intelligence official. "He is quiet," adds the Islamabad official. Says an Afghan official in Kabul who works closely with the U.S. search team: "There's nothing here to go after. Bin Laden's fallen off the radar...
...staff Andrew) CARD, half a dozen big Bush placards in all, were still desperately whirling about. The Bushies were spinning their wheels, though. Some veered into giddy public hyperbole--Rove said this was one of Bush's best debates and one of Kerry's worst--while others conceded quiet, off-the-record dismay...
MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM'S LAST book wasn't supposed to be the next big thing. The Hours was an audacious, challenging, bittersweet literary novel arranged as an elegant theme-and-variations on Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, and Cunningham expected it to end up in the dustbin of quiet critical acclaim, just as his first three books had. Instead, The Hours won a Pulitzer Prize, and Nicole Kidman, playing Woolf, won an Oscar for the movie version...