You never know dept.: a reluctant poster girl.(The Talk of the Town)(Dana Fisher)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 15-APR-02

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Contrary to what riders waiting for the crosstown bus at Amsterdam Avenue and Eighty-sixth Street have been led to believe, Dana Fisher would not, if she had a million dollars, "buy a car and a cute driver to go with it." That is the quote attributed to her on the New York Lotto ad that dominates the bus shelter. And that is Fisher's smiling face and, alongside it, her first name. But it is not her sentiment. It is, in fact, the opposite of her sentiment. And it has created some controversy among Fisher's colleagues at Columbia University's environmental-policy-studies program.

Fisher is a visiting scholar at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs, and she studies global climate change. "It's relatively...

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