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...students. Francis persuades his teenage peers to realize that global warming, far from being a threat of the distant future, will directly affect them. "This problem is my problem," says Francis, who speaks with a precision that reminds me of, well, Gore, without the Tennessee twang. "It's not abstract for us. The effects will be felt in our lifetime...
...calculators are the same, since footprinting is still an inexact science. But using one from a green group or a government agency--and not one sponsored by a company--should give you an unbiased number that will help identify exactly where you can go greener. "Global warming is an abstract idea that is hard for people to connect to," says Bob Schildgen, the Sierra Club's environmental-advice columnist. "It's good to start at the basic level, with real numbers...
...life. Neither can be made. (I try to act in that gap between the two.)" By the mid-'50s, he was also in a romantic relationship with the artist Jasper Johns. Trading ideas at top speed, together they were a pivot point between the psychodramas of the Abstract Expressionists who came just before them and the cool ironies of the Pop artists who came after...
...hardly the first to apply real-world materials to a canvas or to jam disparate things together. Collage had been invented by Pablo Picasso, perfected by Kurt Schwitters and fetishized by the Surrealists. But they all practiced it on a more intimate stage. Working in the era of the Abstract Expressionists and their jumbo canvases, Rauschenberg built his works to a larger scale and gave them that industrial-strength name: combines...
...aging hippie-after saying he hoped his question "doesn't seem odd in the whitest place on earth"-asked Obama if he would launch another "national conversation about race," as President Clinton did. And Obama said: No. "I'm less interested in a conversation about race in the abstract," he said. "All the self-flagellation, it's not useful. African-Americans get all riled up, and whites get defensive...