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...plastic balls, like the one you throw the kids into at Ikea. The dress code? "You have to wear something," says Schmidt. And even he can't explain the (phoneless) London-style phone booth that stands in one hallway--"Who bought that?!" he wonders aloud, sounding like the sole sane person in a loony bin. Above all, there is Google's fetishistic devotion to food; the company serves three excellent meals a day, free, to its staff, at several cafés. In what passes in Mountain View for a crisis, Google has spent months trying to find a successor...
...tribute to young Kline's talent is that viewers of the film assume that he must be a bit...troubled. With a fearful sympathy, they ask Baumbach, "How is Owen?" His answer: "Owen couldn't be a better kid. He is so mature, so sane. I love...
What do some of the most productive people on the planet do to stay focused, despite responsibilities and expectations that would stop most of us in our tracks? Sure, many of them have top-notch assistants or a big staff, but they also have personal strategies for staying sane and on task. Some tips from the pros...
...national charity SANE Australia is running a campaign - "Mental Illness is Real" - that challenges "misinformed community attitudes that discourage the 1 in 5 Australians affected by mental illness from seeking the treatment they need." Last year, Pfizer Australia urged G.P.s to be alert to depression in the country's three million arthritis sufferers. On the basis of a poll it had commissioned and interpreted, the company found 20% of these people had depression. Months earlier, working from another one of its surveys, Pfizer announced that "alarming numbers" of young Australians were at risk of depression because many around them were...
...privy to his relentlessly honest self-interrogations throughout his massive Diaries, Volume One: 1939-1960 (HarperCollins; 1,048 pages; $40). Heroically edited by Katherine Bucknell, the book takes us through Isherwood's first 21 years in California in 901 pages (the glossary alone takes up an additional 93!). Profoundly sane, Isherwood traveled from Garbo to God and back again--by way of the gay underworld--without losing a sense of humor or proportion...