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...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 the frequencies of human speech to make colleagues' chatter less distracting. The cost of creating such quiet zones: 75˘ per sq. ft., about half that of conventional sound...
...crestfallen. And pissed as hell. Recall that this is the fourth bank (next to Fleet, Cambridge Trust, and Cambridge Savings) to settle down within a 100-yard radius of Out-of-Town News. A fifth, Sovereign Bank, is “Coming Soon.” This wouldn’t be so lamentable were it an isolated incident. But, as we well know, it’s part of a much more pernicious and destructive pattern: the de-Harvardization of Harvard Square...
...five or six years, like China?before we can support all these malls." For shop owner Varadharajan, that much economic growth still wouldn't justify all the malls being planned for a small town like Gurgaon. "Even a prosperous country wouldn't have 20-30 malls in a radius of a few square kilometers...
...infected with the virulent H5N1 virus that causes avian flu, dashing hopes that the bird culls earlier this year had eradicated it. Officials in China appear to have responded quickly, barring the export of poultry from the affected Anhui province and culling 30,000 birds within a three-kilometer radius of the original infection. Thailand and Vietnam, which-like China-were slow to deal with the earlier outbreak, also wasted little time responding to the new cases. So far, officials say there's no evidence that humans have been infected in this latest outbreak...
...announced that they had chickens infected with the virulent H5N1 virus that causes avian flu, dashing hopes that the widespread bird culls had eradicated it. Officials in China quickly barred the export of poultry from the affected Anhui province and culled 30,000 birds within a three-kilometer radius of the original infection. So far, officials say there's no evidence that humans have been infected in this latest outbreak. Researchers warn, however, that widespread human infection may only be a matter of time. A report published in Nature last week shows that the unstable H5N1 virus has evolved rapidly...