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...doesn't even begin to embrace it. No, this is beyond that, this display arrayed before anyone taking a stroll down the midway at the "Whole Life Expo," the country's largest and most successful holistic fair, which packed more than 20,000 souls into an arena in Austin, Texas, last week and is on its way to a city near...
...this may seem to be on the far edge, but in truth the crowd is heavy with folks wearing boat shoes and J. Crew shirts. The overflow throngs at the Austin expo are emphatically not wearing sarongs, and they don't have full-body tattoos or multiple piercings. There is barely a dreadlock to be seen; the average age of the expo attendee is 38, and the average wallet is fat. After all, this is the same bunch that has caused sales of natural products to rocket from $4.2 billion in 1990 to $14 billion in 1996, and sales...
...AUSTIN, Texas: The wide world, she has lost a lover. For his 90 years James Michener wandered the globe; for 50, he wrote about it. Michener's books were stuffed suitcases, covered with postmarks, full of cultures and natives and lives about which his readers wanted to dream. All the places we wanted to see, Michener went. Hawaii. Korea. Afghanistan. Israel. Alaska. Texas. The South Pacific. There is no end to the list. Michener drenched himself in each, and then wrote...
...After 50 years of writing; after giving over $100 million back to the arts and to the places he'd been; after a lifetime of being everywhere; Michener ended up in Austin, Texas, on a dialysis machine for his failing kidneys. A week ago, he ordered it disconnected; it was probably slowing him down...
...Tennis at All-America Championships (Austin...