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...according to the authors, that all things must pass into waste. Even if you turn that pop bottle into a fleece jacket?by applying brute force and chemical processing?that seemingly useful incarnation is just an additional step between raw material and landfill. "If humans are truly going to prosper, we will have to learn to imitate nature's highly effective cradle-to-cradle system of nutrient flow and metabolism, in which the very concept of 'waste' does not exist," they write. In other words, things shouldn't be made in the first place if they will ultimately become useless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wasting Away | 5/13/2002 | See Source »

...Monsoon Wedding has something else on its mind. More jostling and bumptious in spirit than Kissing Jessica Stein, it shares a similar idea, which is that the way for romance to prosper in the modern world is to leave it some space to mess around with conventional expectations. These short, sweet (and low-budget) movies refuse to develop predictably. But they bring their charac ters to good, slightly surprising, quite satisfying places. And leave us beaming happily. --By Richard Schickel

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Rules Of Engagement | 3/25/2002 | See Source »

...distance from Arafat, the very fact that the Palestinian leader was able to set terms for joining an American cease-fire initiative is an indication of how quickly the political balance in the region has shifted. Arafat has not only survived Sharon's siege, he has begun to prosper politically as the U.S. effort to rally Arab support against Saddam Hussein has forced the Bush administration to restrain Israel. Such external pressure may even help the beleaguered Sharon by giving him the political cover to retreat from a military escalation whose failure to alter the situation has only fueled challenges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mideast: Cease-Fire May be the Easy Part | 3/19/2002 | See Source »

However, his father had told him that he needed to learn a craft in order to survive and to prosper in society and, as a child, Lu had shown proficiency in drawing and painting. While these two factors may not logically lead to a life of ceramic art, he nonetheless took the entrance examination and was accepted...

Author: By Steven N. Jacobs, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Lu Pinchang: Sculpting a Life | 3/8/2002 | See Source »

...years, Snyder had seen HSPH prosper and expand but by the end of his term, he came into conflict with many of his students. Around the time of the 1969 undergraduate sit-in of University Hall, the School of Public Health saw increasingly frequent disagreements between its students and faculty over curricular reform...

Author: By Frank Wu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Dean During HSPH ‘Golden Age’ Dies | 2/28/2002 | See Source »

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