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Galleries around the world are falling for the Campanas' tropical charms. Their Vitoria Regia stools, named after the giant water lilies of the Amazon River, recently featured in the garden of London's Victoria and Albert Museum, and Tokyo's Museum of Contemporary Art is including the brothers in its "Space for Your Future" exhibition (Oct. 27 to Jan. 20, 2008). Favela chic seems to offer pointers for sustainable living. "It is our job to find beauty and meaning in the everyday," Humberto has said. The siblings wove wicker around cheap plastic seats to create larger, sculptural but still functional...
...recent undergraduate alumni, Elizabeth R. Whitman ’06 of Lewis Albert and Kristen D. O’Neill ’07 of Porter Grey, stand as CEOs of design labels that have risen in considerable prominence in the fashion world—a prominence so extreme that they refused comment to their alma mater’s newspaper. (Because of PR constraints and commitments to other magazines, neither would grant interviews for this article...
...there is much more to the fashion world than shows in Bryant Park tents and mentions in Condé Nast magazines—just two of the accomplishments that Lewis Albert and Porter Grey respectively are making. And in the off-7th-avenue culture of New York, Harvard alums are quietly making a few rumbles...
...Capecchi is the one with the spiral-staircase story: the starving, homeless Italian street kid who found his way to America, to Harvard, to Utah, ever the refugee, before finally arriving at eternal glory and the Nobel Prize. It's in many ways a familiar tale, Oliver Twist meets Albert Einstein, the pilgrim who comes to the promised land expecting, as he says, "the roads to be paved in gold. What I found actually was just opportunity." But his story also has enough nice serrated edges to challenge our theories about genes and genius and what really makes...
...well with the masses, but may undermine efforts to contain inflation. "As low-income earners enjoy higher incomes they tend to spend money," says Simpfendorfer, the Royal Bank of Scotland economist. "Ultimately that's an inflationary story." Political considerations can also prevent officials from taking aggressive, timely action, says Albert Keidel, a senior associate with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a former Beijing-based senior economist for the World Bank. "It's better to nip inflation in the bud," Keidel says, "but [politicians'] concern is that if they take it seriously, it shows they haven't managed...