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...cramped, windowless staff lunchroom at Wings Academy, a small public high school in the Bronx in New York City, teachers are often buzzing about big new ideas on how to teach and reach students. But few of their improvement schemes made it into classrooms until rookie teacher Charles Best had the best idea of all: to create an online charity that would give citizen philanthropists direct access to needy classrooms...
...stained, windowless room at CBS headquarters, a group of twentysomething men in football jerseys and jeans typed furiously behind four rows of computers. They work for PVI Virtual Media Services, the New Jersey company that produces the field-goal graphic and also projects some of the more viewer-friendly innovations--the digital line of scrimmage and first-down lines--onto the screen. (PVI is not the only company in the first-down business. Sportvision, of Chicago, holds the patent for the technology and provides the service for Fox, while Sportsmedia Technology Corp., of Durham, N.C., works with...
...months, I moved from desk to desk, and finally when they gave me an office, it was windowless,” he says. “Nobody would have seen me at that point and thought I was being groomed for anything more than writing sidebars...
...burdened with the immediate political fate of 24 million Iraqis--and, quite possibly, one President of the United States--Lakhdar Brahimi keeps an office in central Baghdad that is anything but grand. He sits in his windowless office along a hallway in the headquarters of the American-led occupation that once was a cavernous palace belonging to Saddam Hussein. The massive central rotunda so reminds Brahimi of the spaceship in his favorite movie, Star Wars, that when he enters, he mutters, "Aaah, this is the mother ship.'' His working space is cramped, just 10 ft. by 12 ft., with...
...Journal of Environmental Psychology, Terry Hartig and colleagues at the University of California at Irvine split 112 stressed-out young adults into two groups. One group spent time in a room with an arboreal view, followed by a walk in a nature preserve. The second group sat in a windowless room and then strolled through an urban setting. The group exposed to greenery had decreased blood pressure and elevated mood, some in just a few minutes. Studies by Texas A&M University's Roger Ulrich have found that surgical patients in hospital rooms with landscape views recover faster than those...