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Management planners suggest that the bedroom should not be a place for work, that all signs of work should be placed in the study or the library so as to avoid sleeplessness and stress. But for most of us, our bedrooms are our only rooms, not counting the windowless common rooms littered with banana peels and CD jewel boxes. We have no place reserved for quiet and rest. The Harvard houses contain no saunas, no shrines for quiet contemplation. We are bereft of calming influence...
Those mechanics were the concern of Ford engineers who as early as 1991 began planning the design for the new Taurus by tearing down and analyzing some 14 competitive models in a windowless basement room at the Ford Design Center in Dearborn, Michigan. Their brutally frank internal review found numerous faults with the Taurus and many superior features in the competition. "We needed major improvements in squeak and rattle performance and engine noises that came with wide-open acceleration," recalls George Bell, the chief engineer. "There was a tendency of the car to loosen up, and we clearly needed...
...right outside--one of three who keep a constant vigil. Would-be visitors are discouraged; even McVeigh's lawyer, Stephen Jones, has to go through three layers of security to see his client. McVeigh leaves his cell rarely, chained at the ankles and wrists and whisked away in a windowless, bulletproof van to the Oklahoma City federal courthouse. From its windows, grand jurors, and perhaps eventually trial jurors, can clearly see the ruins of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building that McVeigh is suspected of having bombed on April 19, killing 168 people...
...good, we're escaping," cries Bjork, grabbing a bag of hot microwaved popcorn and heading out the door of the windowless corporate meeting room. The Icelandic singer-songwriter (her name is pronounced Bee-yerk) has been cooped up in the Beverly Hills offices of her record company most of the day. Bjork likes her freedom. One hearing of her new album, Post, provides admirable demonstration of that: it's a twirling, uninhibited mix of songs-for example, the delightfully raving orchestral number It's Oh So Quiet or the pulsating clubland dance songs like Enjoy and the moody ballads like...
...Within the depths of Sever Hall, with its long, dark corridor and tiny, closet-sized editing rooms, there was constant activity. Four senior VES concentrators spent their spring vacations splicing together clips of footage in order to complete their senior film theses. Ironically, outside of one of the small, windowless editing rooms, a sign is posted which reads, "Students should not live in editing rooms...