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...your image of an environmentalist is an organic fiber-wearing vegan who likes to tout the health benefits of hemp tea, Fred Krupp is here to dissuade you. The environmentalists of today - and more importantly, tomorrow - are more likely to be working at a Silicon Valley solar power start-up than saving the whales. Climate change poses a fundamentally different problem, on a far vaster scale, then the local air pollution or wildlife conservation issues that environmentalists have faced before, and it demands a different kind of solution. At the core of that problem is energy, which touches every aspect...
...growing old--the gaining of wisdom, the drooling of grandbabies, the half-off tickets to matinees of The Bucket List. When it comes to the physical manifestations of advanced years, though, there ain't no euphemizing the indignities. Knees go. Teeth crumble. Ear hairs sprout. Or as Charla Krupp, author of the new best seller How Not to Look Old, puts it, "Aging sucks...
...their colleagues. AARP says 79% of boomers plan to work into the traditional retirement years--good news for employers facing a shortage of skilled workers, bad news for the condo market in Florida. "One way to stay competitive in the workplace is to look young, hip and current," says Krupp...
...emissions, the first bill that would cap such emissions in the U.S. passed out of the Senate's environment committee. Outside Washington, city and state governments, as well as private industry, are taking action. "Suddenly climate change is at the crossroads of what everyone is interested in," says Fred Krupp, president of Environmental Defense, a green NGO based in Washington. "There is a coming together on the issue that just hasn't been there before...
...exaggerating or minimizing his subjects' surroundings, he crafted impressionistic gems-most famously, a 1946 portrait of Igor Stravinsky in which a piano lid helps form the shape of a musical note, below-that suggested his sitters' personalities. In 1963 he infuriated Nazi-German industrialist and alleged Nazi collaborator Alfred Krupp with an intentionally demonic portrait. "As a Jew," Newman said, "it's my own little moment of revenge...