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Article by Takashi Murakami (Published in Esquire Magazine) Click on title for jump to full article. Artist Murakami makes the case for a maximalist aesthetic... Why More is more. August 18, 2008, 5:34 AM Why More Is More... Buzz up! Our man in Tokyo -- painter, sculptor, and art-world iconoclast Takashi Murakami -- endorses maximalism. By Takashi Murakami [ more from this author ]

Architect Meier makes a great case for simplified form and space in our work and personal environments. Article by Richard Meier ( Published in Esquire magazine) Click on Title to go to full article . Why Less Is More... Buzz up! The master architect behind L.A.'s Getty Center and Barcelona's Museum of Contemporary Art makes a case for minimalism. By Richard Meier [ more from this author ]

Drought, Pollution, Politics Spark Water Crisis - Newsweek: Project Green - MSNBC.com By Mary Carmichael Newsweek June 4, 2007 issue - Daily life in the developed world has depended so much, for so long, on clean water that it is sometimes easy to forget how precious a commodity water is. The average American citizen doesn't have to work for his water; he has only to turn on the tap. But in much of the rest of the world, it isn't that simple. More than a billion people worldwide lack clean water, most of them in developing countries. The least fortunate may devote whole days to finding some. - Click title for link to article -