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...refillable, and a candle that Aveda created last year won an award for its packaging, which contained makeready paper, used by printing presses to prepare for a job. Aveda claims to be the world's largest purchaser of organic essential oils, and to make its new fragrance, Rose Attar, it imports 100% organic rose oil from a 100-year-old family-run distillery in Bulgaria that had previously been shut down for political reasons but now employs a number of local residents. And an experimental solar-powered system at its corporate headquarters lights windowless buildings with rays from...
...obvious now that there is a very serious problem between Shi'ites and Sunnis. And I think it's going to get worse," says Mohammed Attar, 25, one of several thousand mourners attending Mahmoud's funeral at the "Two Martyrs" cemetry in Beirut's Shi'ite-dominated southern suburbs. As Mahmoud's coffin is carried into the pine-tree lined cemetery, the mourners slap their foreheads, a Shi'ite gesture of mourning, and chant, "Far and wide, the Shi'ites will shake the ground...
...Helene Turcotte, a muscular beauty, is the champion enthraller. But these oases of grace only underline the frenetic naivete of the rest of Pomp Duck. After 3 1/2 hours of the chef chasing the chanteuse, visitors rush out to inhale that acrid New York air as if it were attar of roses. Even Hell's Kitchen is preferable to hell's kitsch...
...hardly ever spontaneous in postwar Iraq -- especially in the aftermath of the June 27 cruise-missile attack on Baghdad. Yet as they cleared rubble and replaced shattered windows, Iraqis blamed Bill Clinton -- not their own leadership -- for the deaths of eight civilians, including well-loved Iraqi artist Layla Attar. "People don't understand why the Americans are still punishing them," said a senior diplomat in Baghdad. "The economic sanctions and these not-so-surgical strikes don't affect Saddam or his network. The damage to his intelligence services was minimal...
...hostility toward visiting Americans, Iraqis are angry that they -- not the government foisted upon them -- are the ones who always suffer. At the Lawyers' Union in Baghdad's fashionable Mansour district, a white-haired attorney captures Iraqis' twin resentments in his . rage: "Did Bill Clinton have to murder Layla Attar to prove how powerful he is?" he demands. "Did that strike oust Saddam? No. So what's the point...