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...first foray into her homeland's feverish art scene. Demand for contemporary Chinese art has exploded in the past few years, but her personal feelings are mixed. "Some of the work is good; some of it I don't feel as close to," she says. Perhaps that's a product of her international upbringing. She spent her early childhood in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou before moving with her parents to Rome and taking art lessons after school. At university in London and Paris, she studied political science, but drifted back to the art world after graduation. Her first...
Many consumers may not have heard the term greenwashing, but they've surely experienced it--misleading marketing about the environmental benefits of a product. Greenwashing isn't new--ever since the environment emerged as an issue in the early 1970s, there have been advertising firms trying to convince consumers that buying Brand X is the only way to save the earth. But as going green has become big business--sales of organic products alone went from $10 billion in 2003 to more than $20 billion in 2007--companies appear eager to associate themselves with the environment, deservedly...
...TerraChoice website www.terrachoice.com offers a list of what it calls the "six sins of greenwashing"--six simple signs that should tip off consumers to a company that is more interested in selling the earth than saving it. One is the sin of irrelevance, in which, for example, a product trumpets the fact that it is "chlorofluorocarbon free"--even though those ozone-destroying chemicals have been banned for years, meaning the company is asking for applause for just following the law. Another is the sin of the hidden trade-off--the paper towels that come from a sustainably harvested forest...
...Republican Party's subliminal message seems stronger than ever this year because of the nature of the Democratic nominee for President. Barack Obama could not exist in the small-town America that Reagan fantasized. He's the product of what used to be called miscegenation, a scenario that may still be more terrifying than a teen daughter's pregnancy in many American households. Furthermore, he has thrived in the culture and economy that displaced Main Street America - an economy where people no longer work in factories or make things with their hands, but where lawyers and traders prosper unduly...
After the event, Jobs even briefly joined the media in a room where Apple's new product line was being shown. He walked under his own steam, of course, easily and without any apparent discomfort. While he remains impossibly thin - I doubt he weighs 100 lbs. wet - he actually looked jaunty. (The new version of the iPod Nano was billed, by the way, as "The Thinnest iPod Ever...