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...Class of 1967’s open letter tongue-bathes our president as having “brought a breath of fresh air to the University.” She has, indeed. A breath of fresh, sickly sweet, cotton-candy scented air that’s beginning to turn the dourest place on earth into a lavender plantation. It’s a rainbow-riffic new era—who wants red brick when you can have gingerbread instead...

Author: By Adam Goldenberg | Title: I’m General Apathy | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

...wasn't God who allowed an outdoor theme park to build a million-gallon mountain of artificial snow while the Southeast was running dry; it was Governor Perdue and his fellow elected officials. They also allowed the wasteful irrigation of Georgia's cotton farms and the rampant overbuilding and overslurping of metropolitan Atlanta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did Georgia Bring the Drought on Itself? | 11/19/2007 | See Source »

...scientific extremes. Causse's Paris-based T-shirt company, Bluebretzel, offers three unisex shapes in "mythic" shades. So if you are obsessed with the raspberry color of Berthillon ice cream (above) or the brown of the Mona Lisa's eyes, he has replicated those colors exactly on fair-trade cotton T shirts with 5% cashmere fibers. Causse, a former advertising executive, has replicated other iconic colors, such as the original rust shade of the Eiffel Tower, the black of Beluga caviar at Caviar Kaspia, the green of a Citron 2CV and the bright white of the sand on Hyams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: French Color Wheel | 11/19/2007 | See Source »

...first name and French accent reflect the European culture of his adopted home on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius. His children are at college in Perth, Boston and, soon, London. And his $200 million-per-year business is a microcosm of globalization in action. It buys raw cotton from Asia and Africa, ships it to Mauritius, spins it into yarn and makes it into clothes designed in-house. Those are shipped to retailers in Europe, Asia and the U.S. "We have to import all our raw materials, and we are very far from our customers," Woo says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Highs and Lows of African Oil | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

...09RR: Who do you play in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof?”OB: I play Mae.RR: Who is Mae? Tell me a little about her.OB: Mae is the sister-in-law of Brick and Maggie, who are the two main characters. She was Cotton Carnival Queen in high school. She has five kids. She has a sixth on the way and is very proud of her children and thinks that she deserves all of the attention and all of the inheritance.RR: So you have kind of a feud with Maggie [played by Allison...

Author: By Jeffrey W. Feldman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Lust, Alcoholism, Greed... It's All In The Family | 11/9/2007 | See Source »

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