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Forest Ethics' carrot-and-stick approach has proved effective. From 1999 to 2002, the organization pushed Staples and Office Depot to stop buying paper derived from endangered forests and ensure that 30% of the paper they sell has recycled content. Thanks to pressure from Forest Ethics, Victoria's Secret prints its clearance catalogs on paper that has more than 80% recycled content. To Paglia, however, that is only a starting point. "Moving 6% or 7% of their catalogs to recycled paper is to be applauded, but the remaining 350 million need to change," he says...
...presence known later, as looped crying began to thunder out of the amp wall. Opener Sunburned Hand of the Man was taking the stage. As the baby cried on and on, the Boston natives trickled out, until all nine members had donned instruments, electronics boards, microphones, and drum sticks. It was a motley crew of pseudo-lumberjacks while the keyboardist donned an Animal Collective-like mask. The sole female presence, dressed to impress in a business suit, clutched a cocktail during the entire set, serving the same performance role as the Butthole Surfers’ legendary nude dancer.The band?...
...important to learn and internalize the concepts of filmmaking as opposed to video, even though it will be soon outdated,” Patino says, “because it runs on the basic principles that video is predicated upon. Learning filmmaking is like learning to drive stick shift.” There are two different sections: one is taught on Mondays and Wednesdays by Moss; the other is taught on Tuesdays and Thursdays by Hooker Professor of the Visual Arts Alfred Guzzetti. All the classes are held in the basement of Sever and are three to four hours long...
...lights turned on, you’re standing in line, you’re yelling.” And most Harvard students think 10 a.m. classes are bad. But ROTC isn’t all misery. “I flew in a T-34 plane and go stick time and did loops and flips and stuff like that over San Diego and Tijuana,” Brooks says. “I threw up for the next fifteen minutes.” After he graduates, Brooks will go on to further officer training, and by next year...
...fortitude of the harp—as well as to express its coolness—a model attempts to slice bread by forcing it through the instrument’s strings.“I was just kind of in la-la land when she was trying to stick a loaf of bread through a harp,” he says in retrospect, “and I haven’t priced a harp in at least a couple lifetimes, so I didn’t know.”He isn’t even close, and opponent...