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...PAPUA NEW GUINEA. "We started from a postage stamp. Our toehold was as small as that." So recalls Greg Gurbach, a field construction manager for Chevron, of the company's initial sortie into the mountainous jungle that surrounds Lake Kutubu, one of the most pristine spots in the South Pacific. The year was 1986; Chevron headed a consortium that had come to explore a reservoir 1.5 miles beneath the jungle floor that was thought to contain 225 million bbl. of high-quality...
Bellow responded that a journalist had misunderstood that particular "piercing question" and noted that neither the Bulgarians nor the Americans have a Proust. Then he made the ornery outburst: "My critics, many of whom could not locate Papua New Guinea on the map, want to convict me of contempt for multiculturalism and defamation of the Third World. I am an elderly white male -- a Jew to boot. Ideal for their purposes...
...knows for sure. Without question, urbanization has produced miseries so ghastly that they are difficult to comprehend. In Cairo, children who elsewhere might be in kindergarten can be found digging through clots of ox dung, looking for undigested kernels of corn to eat. Young, homeless thieves in Papua New Guinea's Port Moresby may not know their last names or the names of the villages where they were born. In the inner cities of America, newspapers regularly report on newborn babies dropped into garbage bins by drug-addicted mothers...
Randolph chose Papua, New Guinea because thediversity of language, culture, and, mostimportantly for Randolph, design, is among thehighest in the world. The island is populated bymany small groups who have historically beengeographically isolated from each other and theoutside world. Randolph visited the communities tostudy their two-dimensional designs...
...Randolph says, the work level became"manic." And although her company was lucrative,the hotel brochures she produced were "marketdriven, and not very creative." She is quick topraise the benefits of corporate design, but"having studied how design can interact withculture in Papua, New Guinea," says Randolph, "Iwas quickly disillusioned with the corporateworld...