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...news from MTV. We don't reach them with coffee-table picture books, fireside chats and the New York Times editorial page." Werbach hired a graffiti artist to design posters of the Statue of Liberty wearing a gas mask, and he is negotiating a celebrity-studded CD Rock the Planet. "We want to be hard-hitting," he says. "And if it's not fun, it's not worth doing...
...remember one of the students came to me in 1976, and she was in deep agony because she couldn't decide what bank training program to work on in the summer," Kinsley recalls. "To me, it was sort of like asking what planet she should visit...
Pern, an acronym for Parallel Earth, Resources Negligible, is a planet whose residents arrived from Earth many generations before and have reverted to a medieval lifestyle, losing their knowledge and understanding of advances such as computers. Fire-breathing dragons flourish on the planet, genetically engineered by the first settlers of Pern to combat the dreaded Thread--a corrosive substance that threatens Pernese existence every 200 years...
...female dragons control the planet, and are ridden by intimidating "Weyrwomen...
...critters well, so I just had to decide what kind of a dragon I wanted and what it was for," she says. "You can't just plant a new creature down on a new planet without establishing a niche for it." Fighting the Thread with fire become her dragons' niche on Pern...