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Meet the Hospital of the Future (No Double Rooms!)

Posted on 11/26/2012 by | Health | Comments

Bulletin Today | Personal HealthBy Russ Mitchell for Kaiser Health News This story was produced in collaboration with Fast Company. Rarely is nurse Cindy Steckel possessed by fantasies of unspeakable revenge. Toilet design, however, does provoke her fury. Whoever is responsible for the slim-doored, cramped configuration of patient bathrooms in most American hospitals draws her scorn. “I don’t know if there wasn’t such a thing as a walker back then,” she says. “But if I could get my hands on the guy who designed …

Yoko Ono collection channels Lennon’s “Hot Bod”

Posted on 11/23/2012 by | Fashion | Comments

Beauty & FashionYoko Ono, the widow of musician and Beatles icon John Lennon, has embarked on a new career after 79 years of making her mark in art, music, filmmaking and publishing. Ono has entered the world of fashion by launching a menswear collection. She decided to turn her 1969 sketches titled “Fashions for Men,” which had been a wedding gift to Lennon, into a book and collection with retail partner Opening Ceremony. The drawings, loosely annotated in the book, were inspired …