Umberto Eco: taking no calls

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The growing popularity of cellular phones has produced a diverse group of users whose individual needs reflect their own distinct eccentricities. These phone users can be classified into five groups, namely: the terminally ill who must be in constant touch with their doctors, the professionals who must constantly be on call, the romantics who use the phone to carry on their private affairs, the phone addicts who never run out of calls to make and the show-offs who flaunt their phones as an ostentatious display of wealth and prominence. While the first three groups use the phone out of necessity, there are no justifications for the bad taste displayed by the last two groups.

Usage, Cellular telephones, Wireless telephones

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Business: taking the next steps to Washington

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Industrial designers should not nurture false hopes on proposed talks with Pres Clinton's transitional team to discuss ways designers can contribute to industrial competitiveness. The government's attempts to formulate a national design policy should be commended, but without any historical experience in design policy there is a tendency to base decisions such as budget and organization on design policy models of other countries. Designers should therefore be involved in initiatives that will affect the industry if they want to institute attitude changes towards design in the government.

Laws, regulations and rules, Industrial design, Design services

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At home at Habitat: Though Habitat may have lost its way in the eighties, Tom Dixon's taking it back to its roots

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Tom Dixon is concentrating on the rehabilitation of Habitat, the British mass-market furniture and housewares chain. Habitat was found by Sir Terence Conran in 1964, introducing modernism to the UK. There have been a series of corporate reorganizations, and Conran left the company in 1992. The company has been streamlined since Dixon took over 15 months ago, and Dixon is planning to reintroduce items that have become ubiquitous, such as the Polyprop chair, introduced in 1963.

Management, Furniture, Habitat Group PLC, Furniture styles

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