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...please," reads the brightly colored plastic drain cover in the Science Center urinals--this clever pun comes thanks to the folks at www.maincampus.com, whatever they sell. Water in the renovated dining halls now has a brand name, as the soda machines and the potato chips have had on a regular basis. And, of course, in the Harvard T stop, first cnet.com and now American Express have invaded, monopolizing the traditional advertising spaces, pasting posters to the metal beams and spelling out the product name across the turnstiles...
Your examples of modern design are overwhelmingly cheap plastic junk. It's frightening how Americans shrink-wrap and live in so much environmentally unsound plastic. We should use it only where it is best suited: electronics hardware, kitchen utensils and packaging. Classy design that can stand the test of time will always come in the form of distinctive and natural woods, metals, stone and leather. ERIK GAUGER Redondo Beach, Calif...
Sometimes, as we see from his pictures, people suffer in a setting stripped of anything that identifies this as the modern world. There are no cell phones, no plastic bags, just rigor mortis on bare ground, and each shot is a primordial scene in which you recognize what the late 20th century had in common with, say, the darkest moments of the 6th. Sometimes his pictures include unnerving bits of modern flotsam. In a Rwandan refugee camp in Zaire a young man lies dead in a heap of used plastic intravenous bags. Elsewhere in the camp the corpses are pushed...
...POTATO HEAD Rhode Island names plastic spud "travel ambassador." Can Malibu Barbie get California...
Chandra, who didn't go to college, was one of the country's first self-made media moguls: he earned his initial fortune in plastic tubing in the 1980s, before turning to entertainment. He speaks in a low, measured voice that rumbles with assurance, but he is still hungry for respect. (It rankles, for instance, that American businessman Craig McCaw, one of his principal partners in the satellite venture, has never come to India.) "People used to think that only the large billion-dollar companies from the U.S. could succeed here," he says. "We have proved that wrong." And Chandra...