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...young people who responded to our story felt they had been unfairly dissed. "How can parents blame us for being spoiled, when pop culture and advertising--created by adults--have targeted us as a market?" asked a Colorado teen. "You slapped negative labels on our entire generation," complained a Californian. "None of my friends got a Mercedes for their 16th birthday. What we do have are the problems that the President is leaving for the future." A Wisconsin high-schooler was more upbeat: "Rest easy, folks. The 95% of us who weren't handed our lives on a silver platter...
...Californian Jane Kimball never planned to write a book or start a website. But one $15 engraved brass vase inspired a collection of more than 700 pieces and the pursuit of the stories behind them. The vase--originally a 1915 German artillery shell--is an example of trench art, mostly produced in World War I but still being made in Kosovo today. It has recently taken off as a hot commodity and subject of scholarship: the first book on trench art was published in April by Nicholas Saunders of University College London, and an exhibition opened in May in France...
...suddenly exploding on the Madison Avenue scene. After plowing through $50 million, PVI has fine-tuned a patented computer system that digitally inserts virtual billboards and ads into sporting events and other broadcasts. "We make [advertisers] immune to what people do during the breaks," says Williams, a native Californian with a Ph.D. in physics...
...American artists to whom he is closest are Edward Hopper and his fellow Californian, the late great Richard Diebenkorn; among Europeans, the names Giorgio Morandi, Chardin and Manet are among the first to pop up. But he is also one of those painters who, happily, feel entitled to pick and quote wherever they choose: he does not suffer from the snobbery of influence. "The sublime of Orange Crate art," critic Adam Gopnik writes in his catalog introduction, and one knows just what he means. Thiebaud is one of the few American artists whose ambitions have no Puritan or didactic dimension...
...ultimate fate of the cosmos too gloomy to contemplate, even at a few trillion years' remove? A lot of you got downright doleful at the faraway prospect. "Thank you for making me feel very, very small," griped a reader from Los Angeles. Even more despondent was a Californian from Castro Valley, who called our story "the most depressing thing I have ever read. It seems we are doomed no matter what we do. Pass the Prozac." A Houstonian was "extremely distraught to think of the universe as an infinitely large, charred nothing." But in Cincinnati, Ohio...