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...Nike and J.Crew have developed exercise apparel, as has Turlington. For those who prefer stay-at-home yoga, the video-store racks groan with hot, moving tapes. The Living Yoga series of instructional videos taught by Yee and Patricia Walden occupies five of the top eight slots on Amazon's VHS best-seller list. "Vogue and Self are putting out the message of yoginis as buff and perfect," says Walden. "If you start doing yoga for those reasons, fine. Most people get beyond that and see that it's much, much more." By embodying the grace and strength of their...
...ethnobotany, which examines the medicinal and hallucinogenic uses of plants among indigenous peoples; in Boston. While his research inadvertently contributed to the 1960s drug culture, Schultes rejected the Timothy Leary and William Burroughs brand of "mind expansion." He collected more than 24,000 dried plant specimens, mostly from the Amazon. Some of the 120 plant species named for him treat ulcers, tuberculosis and conjunctivitis...
...Nike and J.Crew have developed exercise apparel, as has Turlington. For those who prefer stay-at-home yoga, the video-store racks groan with hot, moving tapes. The Living Yoga series of instructional videos taught by Yee and Patricia Walden occupies five of the top eight slots on Amazon's vhs best-seller list. "Vogue and Self are putting out the message of yoginis as buff and perfect," says Walden. "If you start doing yoga for those reasons, fine. Most people get beyond that and see that it's much, much more." By embodying the grace and strength of their...
...Well, Amazon can still bellwether with the best of them, at least emotionally. After the bubble-all-over-its-face dot-com boldly preannounced Monday that it had lost less money (and sold more stuff) in the first quarter than anybody expected, suddenly anything looks possible. Could Motorola, or E*Trade (after the bell Tuesday) pleasantly surprise too? Could Yahoo (Wednesday?) tell us the web advertising market isn't quite a death sentence...
...Street's flicker of hope has a couple of ways to get doused, starting with those same earnings reports that may or may not follow Amazon's cheery lead. Thursday's inflation number, if it's way, way up, could put those Fed rumors to bed with a thud. Then there's the fact of the good mood itself - a few rallies between now and the week's end could make the mood on Good Friday too good...