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...learning to be a sculptor and how to pay the bills that wouldn't wait. "I got very good at pathetic letters." She moved to Japan in 1961; during her two years there she had her first artistic success in a show of her "chug" sculpture-bits of scrap representing soapbox-derby cars. She also met Sculptor Fumio Yoshimura. They returned to New York, where Kate began teaching-first at Hunter, then at Barnard-and working on her Ph.D. at Columbia. She lived with Fumio for a year, and "for what it's worth, being committed to each...
...planes crashed on the Vatnajökull, Europe's largest glacier. A U.S. Air Force C-47 was sent to pick up the unhurt pilots, but it could not take off again because the air was too thin. Icelandic's owners bought the plane for scrap from the Air Force for $700. Months later, they dug it out from under 18 feet of snow, towed it 60 miles overland and sold it to Spanish buyers for $75,000. After that windfall, Icelandic was in business to stay...
...through-college channeling system provides, we also have the necessity of creating our own lives. The ones that have been planned for us, have already been lived, and there is no sense for us to follow their futile path, carrying our cog's world of American culture to the scrap heap. In exchange for having to live through some of the greatest horrors the world has ever seen, we are left to our creativity to find our own direction...
...replace aluminum wherever possible. Statistics give the reason: making a ton of aluminum takes 17,000 kw-h of power, while a ton of steel requires only 2,700 kwh. In addition, steel products, especially cars, could be redesigned for easier and fuller reuse. To reclaim a ton of scrap steel in an electric furnace requires only 700 kwh. Another plus for steel would be a return to "tin" (mostly steel) cans that rust away, compared with aluminum cans that last and litter the landscape for decades...
...through-college channeling system provides, we also have the necessity of creating our own lives. The ones that have been planned for us, have already been lived, and there is no sense for us to follow their futile path, carrying our cog's worth of American culture to the scrap heap. In exchange for having to live through some of the greatest horrors the world has ever seen, we are left to our creativity to find our own direction...