Sunday, April 15, 2007
By Mackenzie Carpenter
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
She is no longer the outspoken, freewheeling quote-machine of the early 2004 presidential campaign, the woman beside Democratic nominee Sen. John F. Kerry who intrigued voters and frazzled political handlers with her tendency to say exactly what she thought on everything from health care policy to botox, from pre-nups to Rick Santorum.
These days, Teresa Heinz Kerry seems more guarded around the news media. Since her husband's defeat, she's lowered her profile, tending to her various philanthropies and, perhaps, nursing some wounds -- not just from the election but from some snarky portrayals of her in the press.
But get Mrs. Heinz Kerry started on the new book about the environment she co-wrote with her husband, or the free conference on women's health and the environment she's hosting Friday at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Downtown, and she is soon in full roar, albeit in a soft, accented voice. She moves effortlessly from one subject to the other, from the risks of pthalates in nail polish -- "not all nail polish, but some" -- to the percentage of CO2 in the atmosphere and how much time we have left "before everything goes to hell."
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It's a subject also mapped out in some detail in the book Mrs. Heinz Kerry co-wrote with her husband, "This Moment on Earth: Today's New Environmentalists and Their Vision for the Future." The book profiles individuals who tackle pollution, global warming and other environmental threats through grass-roots action, and it's won praise even from conservative and former global warming skeptic Newt Gingrich.
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