Leo hops a plane to Argentina to find out, using Gal-Chen's research on retrieving "thermodynamic variables from within deep convective clouds" to guide his own blundering "attempts at retrieval" of the "real" Rema. No, this is not chick lit.
It's unusual — in fact (why be coy?), it's extremely rare — to come across a first novel by a woman writer that concerns itself with such quirky, philosophical, didactic explorations; a novel in which the heart and the brain vie for the role of protagonist, and the brain wins. While the voice and mood of the novel are masculine, clinical and objective (Leo registers Rema's distress with detachment, recording it but not feeling it), the book's descriptions of colors, smells, clothing and bodies show feminine perception: Rema's hair has the "smell of grass"; a woman has "wet cement eyes"; a '70s shirt with a butterfly collar has "pearline" fasteners.
The Post-Multinational Corporation Written By: Michelle Haimoff 2007-04-11 20:30:04 On Tuesday, April 10, I attended a Sustainability Practice panel hosted by Deloitte, called “The Post-Multinational Corporation: Can New Business Models Deliver Business Growth Alongside Social, Environmental and Development Progress?”
The Powerlessness of Green Written By: Michelle Haimoff 2007-06-14 17:43:30 When we see a documentary that tells us how limited our time is before the world implodes, our first thought is, “Wow,” and the second is, “Let’s see who called my cell phone while I was at that documentary.”
The reason for this is that we, as a society, do not have the resolve to stop a problem 50 or 25 or even 10 years before it affects us. This is not because we’re selfish brutes only interested in our own best interest, though of course we are, but rather because we are shortsighted. We put things off until we absolutely have to deal with them, and then we put things off some more.
The Story of Stuff Written By: Michelle Haimoff 2008-01-17 14:03:29 I have a list of about 100 movies I've never gotten around to seeing so I know all about putting things off. But even I managed to make time for this 20 minute fast-paced video about stuff.
It sounds like a weird premise but that's literally what it's about. Our stuff. Where it comes from. Where it goes. And why that matters. Cynics will appreciate that there is no emotional or ethical appeal to save our planet, just straight facts in a conversational tone. You will learn a lot in 20 minutes. Trust me. I hated An Inconvenient Truth. But this is the kind of thing everyone would want to see:
Disclosure: This isn't really a disclosure but I just wanted to point out that you're not really doing anything else for the next 20 minutes so just watch it. By the time you come up with something else to do (or say you're gonna do), 20 minutes will have passed.
