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Donations feed its wasteful bureaucracy, not starving children.
Stories of wasteful shoots abound: the matching seaweed that had to be flown from California to the Caribbean for a fashion photo; the Annie Liebovitz Vanity Fair cover shot of Arnold Schwarzenegger that reportedly cost $100,000; the Vogue shoot in Africa in which, an ex- Vogue editor claims, the photographer and his huge entourage wined and dined to the tune of "hundreds of thousands of dollars."
Those events, too, were derided in advance as wasteful and stupid.
3) Many analysts regard Oracle's wager on network computers (an alternative to PCs) as a wasteful distraction.
In London Friday, the Guardian blamed Hurricane Floyd on America's "massive, wasteful consumption of a disproportionate share of the planet's resources."