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Propst is the guy who, three decades ago, dreamed up these modular boxes for furniture giant Herman Miller. As he envisioned it, the system of wafer-thin, movable walls would be a revolutionary tool that would break down rigid hierarchies, spur creativity and free work spaces from the shackles of uniformity. Unfortunately, he didn't count on the square-foot police. Those FORTUNE 500 facility managers arrested his innovation and reformed it into an impersonal, white-collar assembly line, one that can make a genuine gearhead long for the good, old days of windowless offices and rotary phones...
Some people melt over wafer-thin notebook PCs. Others get finger twitches thinking about their next death match in Quake III. But what really brings out the techno-geek in me is a killer search engine that finds just what I'm looking for, and fast. That's why Google has made it to the top of my bookmark file. The engine was developed by two Stanford Ph.D. students and named after the mathematical term googol, which stands for 10[100th power]. The great thing about Google is that it works...
News that wafer-thin model Naomi Campbell would not be at New York's fashion week may have disappointed some designers, but it proved wholly irrelevant to those who staged last week's Lane Bryant lingerie show--a plus-size production where no model under a size 14 was even a candidate. Among those casing the runway was former Guess? mannequin ANNA NICOLE SMITH. The show, which was loaded onto Lane Bryant's website the following night, registered 50,000 hits within 24 hours. Though close to half of American women wear a size 12 or above, this...