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...stroll down the surrounding streets and discover specialty shops selling bolts of African wax cloth, plantains, sweet potatoes, dried fish, manioc and other mysterious root vegetables. Hawkers unloading cheap watches and perfume complete the feeling of being transported to another continent. At the organic Marché du Boulevard Raspail (6th arrondissement; Sundays, 8 a.m.-1.30 p.m.; Metro: St. Placide), prices can be two to three times higher than elsewhere, but as American Michael Healy, who has been serving his homemade English muffins here for 10 years, attests: "Every time there's a mad cow, you get a few more people...
...organic March? du Boulevard Raspail (6th arrondissement; Sundays, 8 a.m.-1.30 p.m.; Metro: St. Placide), prices can be two to three times higher than elsewhere, but as American Michael Healy, who has been serving his homemade English muffins here for 10 years, attests: "Every time there's a mad cow, you get a few more people who want to eat well." Here you can pick up organic yogurt, rustic breads and dirt-caked potatoes, as well as a hand-knit wool sweater, a jar of seaweed tapenade?or a cup of squash-and-coriander soup to help take the edge...
...work has properly begun to appear here courtesy of Viz. Now Vertical Inc., a two-year-old publisher of translated Japanese literature has begun the first-ever English translation of "Buddha." Originally appearing in serialized form during the 1970s, "Buddha," an imaginative re-telling of the story the 6th-century B.C. teacher and spiritual leader, will be collected in eight stylish hardcover volumes. Two volumes appear at a time in the fall and spring. Volume one, "Kapilavastu," appeared this month. Volume two, "The Four Encounters," is due at the beginning of November. Volumes three and four will hopefully come...
Master Peter H.U. Lee, head instructor for the Harvard taekwondo club and 6th-dan black belt, said he hoped the tournament would bring more attention to the sport...
Summer page turners tend to sidestep the finer points of 6th century church history. Perhaps that is their loss. The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown, now in its 18th week on the New York Times hard-cover fiction best-seller list, is one of those hypercaffeinated conspiracy specials with two-page chapters and people's hair described as "burgundy." But Brown, who by book's end has woven Magdalene intricately and rather outrageously into his plot, has picked his MacGuffin cannily. Not only has he enlisted one of the few New Testament personages whom a reader might arguably imagine...