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...thick paper decorated with a whimsical owl and a smartly dressed pig. It’s his kindergarten diploma. Carefully navigating the chaos, his left arm almost destroying a perfectly folded pile of undershirts, he crosses the room and secures the diploma onto the blank wall above his wooden desk. Pausing for several moments as his exhausted roommates look on in wonderment, he finally utters, “Wow! It’s great to be in first grade.”Norberg’s roommates, John W. Scott ’06 and Joey M. Hanzick...
...vice president of hardlines five years ago. She was instrumental in welcoming interior designers Thomas O'Brien and Victoria Hagan to the fold. O'Brien's lighting designs have resonated most brightly with customers, and you don't need to be Thomas Edison to work out why. A handsome desk lamp at Aero, O'Brien's high-end SoHo store, runs upwards of $1,000. The Target version, almost as spiffy, is a mere...
...Kevin Shee ’10. Some of the characters in this theatrical story take getting used to, such as two women joined together by their hair (played by Sarah C. Kenney ’08 and Joanna M. Zimmerman ’10) and a moving, human desk-and-chair set created by Joanna R. Binney ’08, Julia K. Lindpaintner ’09, and Marin J.D. Orlosky ’07-’08 (who is also a Crimson editor), upon which a dancer—Hannah S. Yohalem ’10?...
...walk through the Fogg’s galleries encompasses most of the collection’s most talked-about paintings. To see the most talked-about paint, however, a trip upstairs is required.In the laboratory on the top floor, a few small pieces of plastic are grouped on the desk of Narayan Khandekar, the senior conservation scientist at Harvard’s Straus Center for Conservation. They’re inconspicuous and easy to pass over, but these plastic cubes contain the kernel of a raging art-world debate.“If you look...
...fast-growing grass eats up more CO2 than an equivalent field of trees, so farming it can help to reduce greenhouse gases. It also biodegrades easily and doesn't release any evil compounds when it's decomposing. However, that doesn't mean your keyboard will start decaying on your desk. All of the bamboo is dried and treated for bugs and infestations, resulting in a material that's harder than oak and no more likely to rot than its plastic equivalent. Now that your eco-guilt has been allayed, all you'll have to worry about is a panda making...