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...done a lot of movies with him, and that became the shtick--Ben's the workaholic, Owen likes to keep things fresh by not reading the script until he shows up on set. But when I work on something, it's not like I phone it in or don't take it seriously...
Financial institutions are the only group other than employers required by law to collect your SSN. But they too use it far more than necessary--to let you access accounts over the phone or online, for instance. Some banks use just the last four digits. "It's not totally safe, but it's safer," says Robert Ellis Smith, publisher of Privacy Journal. He suggests calling the bank and requesting a different password altogether...
...lasting benefit--especially for those who don't live on a military base--is the support network built during their week at camp. "Nonmilitary people don't know what it's like to have someone you love in an uncivilized, faraway place tell you on the phone, 'Oh, that's a car bomb going off, but I'm kind of used to it,'" says Courtney Rinnert, 11, whose Army Reservist stepdad spent 15 months in Iraq. "These people share the same experience...
Even as workplaces move toward more open seating, privacy remains a top demand among employees. A Knoll study found that 45% say they do their best work in "their own personal space." The top privacy-related gripe: overheard conversation, particularly from cell-phone shouters. So architects are being exhorted to help muffle cubicle babble. Some advocate loft ceilings, others white noise; a desktop gadget called Babble can broadcast garbled recordings of the user's voice to mask real conversation. "To be honest, I see a lot more people just wearing iPods at their desks," says Dennis Gaffney, co-director...
...designers agree that the best way to cap cube chatter is to move it. "To do that," says James Ludwig, director of design for Steelcase, "you need to create spaces for people to go." Steelcase is testing a concept called the Cell Cell, a phone booth fitted with reception boosters. Chatty colleagues might gravitate to the Dyadic Slice, designed for two, or hold brainstorming sessions in the Digital Yurt, whose sensor-triggered lighting oscillates with increased activity...