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Vickie is the reason he got his chance in the first place. She signed him up for the promotion at a local K Mart store last year. When the winner's envelope came last August, telling him he had beat out 2 million other contestants, Bobby was, well, suspicious. "I thought it was a scam," he says. "I told Vickie that as long as nobody asked for any credit cards or money, I'd go along with it." Although he had never played basketball as a kid, he planted a brand-new Slam Dunk hoop in his gravel driveway last...
...study. By the time he arrived in New Orleans, he seemed to be enjoying himself. He shot baskets for morning TV shows, he effortlessly dropped Gillette's name during radio interviews, he posed with tourists for photos. Vickie, meanwhile, carried his cherished Rawlings basketball around in a plastic Wal-Mart bag. Everywhere he went, fans recognized...
Even the famously middlebrow Wal-Mart chain is getting in on the act. The retailer is designing an "environmental store" in Lawrence, Kansas, that could become the prototype for all future Wal-Marts and for retrofitting the chain's existing stores. The retail outlet will be built mostly of wood and concrete block -- materials that require 33% less energy to produce than steel -- and feature an elaborate, high-efficiency lighting system enhanced by skylights that use holographic films to spread daylight evenly over the space. The store will have its own recycling center so that shipping boxes never have...
William McDonough, consulting architect for the Wal-Mart project and one of the most visionary of the green designers, thinks environmental consciousness is not merely a new constraint on his profession, but has the potential to create a new aesthetic. It was the unfortunate coincidence of cheap oil and the ability to fabricate large sheets of glass, he argues, that led to the "modern" office buildings pioneered by architects like Mies van der Rohe in the 1950s. Architectural movements since then -- notably postmodernism -- have been purely superficial, decorative responses to that style. "That's why this movement is so exciting...
Others hope that Clinton will deliver on his promise to help young people get ahead. Last fall Stuart O'Dell, 19, registered 503 voters out in front of the Wal-Mart store where he works. Because Clinton won Montgomery County by fewer than 3,200 votes, O'Dell likes to think he helped put Clinton over the top. In return, he expects the President to push through his plan to help students go to college in exchange for some form of community service, a promise that Clinton has already scaled back somewhat. "I've managed to save...