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...anyway. Chabon has been a published novelist almost from the moment he completed the graduate writing program at the University of California at Irvine. The manuscript he produced for his master's degree was passed along by his thesis adviser to an agent. Eventually it became The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, the 1988 book that got him noticed immediately as a young writer on the rise. "I've been very lucky all my life," he says. "You can't help but feel that you don't deserve it. You're an impostor, impersonating a successful person...
...them turn up in unlikely places. In Manhattan's Times Square, the 48-story headquarters of the Conde Nast publishing company produces nearly 10% of its electricity with photovoltaics and hydrogen-powered fuel cells. In what was once the derelict B&O railroad site on the riverfront in Pittsburgh, Pa., you now find the PNC Firstside Center, with many of the standard green features plus eight electric-car recharging stations to encourage the use of energy-efficient cars...
...where I was from and where I was going. I did not feel as though I was being interrogated, as much as I felt I was being engaged in a friendly conversation. Seeing the folks at DIA smiling and thanking passengers has restored my faith in flying. REBECCA HALL Pittsburgh...
...region is an unlikely setting for the world's second-largest museum dedicated to Warhol's work and life (Pittsburgh has the biggest). It is a forgotten land of mountains, storks, scarecrows and industrious people - a quarter of whom are unemployed - struggling to adjust to post-communist life. "It's so strange to find Warhol here, in the middle of this nowhere," says Heiko Schramm, 36, a visitor from Chemnitz, Germany...
...good reason. Though his parents emigrated from the area in the early 1900s, Pittsburgh-born Warhol never visited Slovakia, much less Medzilaborce, a remote town of 6,500. But that has not stopped the locals, few of whom had ever heard of Warhol or Pop art before 1989, from adopting him as one of their own. "If you want to know Andy Warhol the superstar, go to Pittsburgh," says Michal Bycko, the museum's curator. "But if you want to know him as a person and what he was like before he became famous, you need to come to Medzilaborce...