Word: workdays
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...Zombies are what we feel like at our worst: slogging through a winter workday, standing in a long line at airport security, waking up with a hangover. Vampires speak to the romantic in us, to our need for human contact, teeth to neck. They embody everything erotic about the predatory impulse. Vampires glide through the night and, instead of breaking down your door like an angry zombie mob, they glide into your bedroom for a late-night tryst. They don't rip a victim's limbs off; they leave two decorous little puncture marks on the neck or breast...
...tuning fork, McChrystal has a certain monkish mythology about him that his aides seem keen to foster. In Afghanistan, they say, he gets up at 4 a.m. to run and e-mail before his workday really begins with an 8:30 video briefing with his regional commanders across the country. His iPod and Kindle (the newest model) are stocked by his wife with serious tomes on Pakistan, Lincoln and Vietnam. Right now, he is reading William Maley's 2002 book The Afghanistan Wars, a catalog of the long list of British failures in Afghanistan. McChrystal famously eats little during...
...birth, in 1962, his father was a law student in London. When Shonibare was 3, his family moved back to Nigeria, but they returned to London in the summers. In Lagos, the future artist spoke English at school but Yoruba at home. At the end of the workday, his father changed from Western dress into African robes. "Being bicultural for a Nigerian is completely normal," Shonibare says. "There's nothing strange about...
...Design to produce this new ergonomic chair. With its durable rubber back and unique figure-eight design, the Generation flexes to support the spine while allowing users to move freely to different sitting positions. "Our inspiration was the occupant of the chair and the varied postures adopted during the workday," says Knoll director of design Benjamin Pardo. The Generation, which arrives in stores in July, uses less material than standard office chairs and will be available in seven colors. With options such as lemongrass green and firecracker red, the office just got more...
...Facebook. Is there anything it can't do? Sure, it can spice up a dull workday, reunite old school friend and serve as a matchmaker. But the site is also credited with reviving a flagging Greek system at one school after all the fraternities moved off campus in a dispute over university rules...