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...stage—beyond just questioning the efficacy (or rather, existence) of his plans—Sarah Palin tried to call Barack Obama out for manufacturing his image. “When the roar of the crowd fades away…when the stadium lights go out, and those Styrofoam Greek columns are hauled back to some studio lot—what exactly is our opponent’s plan?” she asked in her speech at the Republican National Convention. This line was a calculated attempt to puncture Obama’s projected character, to expose...
...give an entire speech about the wars America is fighting and never use the word victory except when he's talking about his own campaign. But when the cloud of rhetoric has passed ... when the roar of the crowd fades away ... when the stadium lights go out and those Styrofoam Greek columns are hauled back to some studio lot - what exactly is our opponent's plan...
...green message gets broadcast in a variety of ways: at Claremont-McKenna College in California, students erected a giant Pyramid of Waste - a stack of Styrofoam to-go containers - designed to encourage students to eat in. "Fundamentally, I think consumers have to understand that some of the responsibility lies with them to create less waste," says Helene York, director of Bon Appétit Management, a company that has been dedicated to sustainable food initiatives at colleges nationwide since 1999. "If we create less waste, we don't even have to consider a need for back-end technologies [like...
...verse when he wrote a stanza that read "Let's go down to the cities to kill the scumbags," and later when he decamped to the hills around Sarajevo to oversee the shelling of its civilians. In one typically pompous display, he unveiled to a room of sycophants a Styrofoam mock-up of a "New Sarajevo" that he said would rise from the muddy village of Pale that served as his wartime headquarters...
...recalls fellow inmates fashioning tiny sculptures of spiders and scorpions out of toilet paper doused in cold tea. All were taken and thown away, says Begg, as potential security risks. Guantanamo's poets, not allowed pen or paper in their first years of detention, wrote short poems on Styrofoam cups from meals, which they passed from cell to cell...