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By Derek Tsang, ’15 VOLUME 106, NUMBER 4 42 SCRAP METTLE Entrepreneurs meeting the demand for raw materials, not environmental virtue, drives the expansion of the recycling industry. By Adam Minter, AB’93 Plus: “Trash Talker.” By Jason Kelly 50 EPIC CROSSING John Snyder, AB’56, traversed Ethiopia seeking inspiration for a screenplay. Instead he captured a landscape about to disappear. By Laura Demanski, AM’94 Departments 3 EDITOR’S NOTES In any language: The sounds of March. By Laura Demanski, AM’94 4 LETTERS Readers react to the previous issue’s cover image (with a bullseye), raise matters of race and scholarly evidence, pine for Milton Friedman’s influence in response to the financial crisis, rev their critical engines over advertising, and more. 11 ON THE AGENDA SEPTOCT 2011, VOLUME 104, NUMBER 1 Humanities dean Martha Roth and social sciences dean Mario Luis Small discuss the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society, “a laboratory for humanists.” 13 UCHICAGO JOURNAL Envisioning China has operatic range; a model says industry changes are a plus; a stats guy makes the best bets; Leon Kass, U-High’54, SB’58, MD’62, and Amy Kass, AB’62, develop an online curriculum; office hours for art interpretation; the link between disrupted sleep and cancer growth; a physicist keeps the science honest on a hit TV show; and how law school helped poet Natalie Shapero, JD’11, turn her verse loose. 26 C VITAE After more than three decades at Britannica, editor in chief Dale Hoiberg, AM’74, PhD’93, has encyclopedic knowledge of an evolving industry. In Michael LaBarbera’s 57 PEER REVIEW lab, jellyfish, cu lefish, Leslie Maitland, AB’71, recalls her role breaking the story of the real Abscam, crabs, clams, sea urchins, which inspired the “terrifically amusing satire” American Hustle, and Nissa and octopuses are only a Rhee, AB’06, surveys the legacy of war with American veterans returning to few of the creatures you Vietnam. Plus: Alumni News, Deaths, and Classifieds. might encounter. See “A Life Aquatic,” page 28. 88 LITE OF THE MIND Illustration by Jen Lobo. #uchicagoselfie: Face time at the Magazine’s Instagram account. Island Resort Living 21 miles from historic Charleston, SC, Top City in the World* I HOME OF THE 2012 PGA CHAMPIONSHIP See the full print issue of the University of Chicago Magazine, EXCLUSIVE HOME LISTINGS: 866.309.2549 • KiawahIsland.com/ChicagoFeb I PLAN A VISIT: 866.687.5696 • KiawahResort.com web-exclusive content, and links to our Facebook, Twi er, Flickr, SFI-01042 and Tumblr accounts at mag.uchicago.edu. 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By Laura Demanski, AM’94 4 LETTERS Readers react to the previous issue’s cover image (with a bullseye), raise matters of race and scholarly evidence, pine for Milton Friedman’s influence in response to the financial crisis, rev their critical engines over advertising, and more. 11 ON THE AGENDA SEPTOCT 2011, VOLUME 104, NUMBER 1 Humanities dean Martha Roth and social sciences dean Mario Luis Small discuss the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society, “a laboratory for humanists.” 13 UCHICAGO JOURNAL Envisioning China has operatic range; a model says industry changes are a plus; a stats guy makes the best bets; Leon Kass, U-High’54, SB’58, MD’62, and Amy Kass, AB’62, develop an online curriculum; office hours for art interpretation; the link between disrupted sleep and cancer growth; a physicist keeps the science honest on a hit TV show; and how law school helped poet Natalie Shapero, JD’11, turn her verse loose. 26 C VITAE After more than three decades at Britannica, editor in chief Dale Hoiberg, AM’74, PhD’93, has encyclopedic knowledge of an evolving industry. In Michael LaBarbera’s 57 PEER REVIEW lab, jellyfish, cu lefish, Leslie Maitland, AB’71, recalls her role breaking the story of the real Abscam, crabs, clams, sea urchins, which inspired the “terrifically amusing satire” American Hustle, and Nissa and octopuses are only a Rhee, AB’06, surveys the legacy of war with American veterans returning to few of the creatures you Vietnam. Plus: Alumni News, Deaths, and Classifieds. might encounter. See “A Life Aquatic,” page 28. 88 LITE OF THE MIND Illustration by Jen Lobo. #uchicagoselfie: Face time at the Magazine’s Instagram account. Island Resort Living 21 miles from historic Charleston, SC, Top City in the World* I HOME OF THE 2012 PGA CHAMPIONSHIP See the full print issue of the University of Chicago Magazine, EXCLUSIVE HOME LISTINGS: 866.309.2549 • KiawahIsland.com/ChicagoFeb I PLAN A VISIT: 866.687.5696 • KiawahResort.com web-exclusive content, and links to our Facebook, Twi er, Flickr, SFI-01042 and Tumblr accounts at mag.uchicago.edu. Obtain the Property Report required by Federal law and read it before signing anything. No Federal agency has judged the merits or value, if any, of this property. Void where prohibited by law. An offering statement has been filed with the Department of State of the State of New York. A copy of the offering statement is available, upon request, from the subdivider. The filing of the verified statement and offering statement with the Department of State of the State of New York does not constitute approval of the sale or lease or offer for sale or lease by the Department of State or any officer thereof, or that the Department of State has in any way passed upon the merits of such offering. This project is registered with the New Jersey Real Estate Commission. Registration does not constitute an endorsement of the merits or value of the project. Obtain and read the NJ Public Offering Statement and read it before signing anything. (NJ Reg #89/15-175). *Conde Nast Traveler, 2013 A K IAWAH PARTNERS AFFILIATE the university of chicago magazine | mar–apr 2014 1 IFC_Kiawah-ad.indd 1 2/27/14 9:19 AM web_2014_mar-apr.indd 1 3/7/14 9:50 AM UCH_Contents_Mar Apr_v2.indd 1 2/28/14 3:39 PM 140311_Kiawah_Chicago.indd 1 1/24/14 8:47 AM In a photo on display in a current EDITORˆS NOTES Crerar Library exhibit about his career, zoology professor Charles O. Whitman tends to the pigeons whose development, heredity, and behavior he studied for decades, keeping the birds in cotes near his South Woodlawn Volume 106, Number 4, Mar–Apr 2014 Avenue home. The exhibit is open through March 21, but an online executive editor Mary Ruth Yoe In any language version will remain available at editor Laura Demanski, AM’94 BY LAURA DEMANSK I, AM’94 associate editors Lydialyle Gibson, lib.uchicago.edu/e/webexhibits Jason Kelly /charleswhitman.