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GIFTS FROM THE HEART Searching for a unique holiday gift that won't look as if it came straight off the racks at Banana Republic? At WORLD2MARKET.COM, you can find anything from a beaded Huichol Mexican Indian mask to a hand-embroidered quilt from India. Even better, the site buys products only from humanitarian organizations committed to improving the life of the artisans by ensuring a safe work environment and a living wage as well as a savings plan. That means $11 of the $46 you pay for a hand-blown Peruvian vase goes directly to the artisan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief: Nov. 22, 1999 | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

Whoever said "waste not, want not" hasn't had much influence on 276 million Americans. In 1997 we gave a collective heave-ho to more than 430 billion lbs. of garbage. That means each man, woman and child tossed out an average of nearly 1,600 lbs. of banana peels, Cheerios boxes, gum wrappers, Coke cans, ratty sofas, TIME magazines, car batteries, disposable diapers, yard trimmings, junk mail, worn-out Nikes--plus whatever else goes into your trash cans. An equivalent weight of water could fill 68,000 Olympic-size pools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can We Make Garbage Disappear? | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

...easing the transition even for committed carnivores. That's why TIME chose him to prepare a dinner for 2025 that would be good for the body--and the planet. In his tasty menu, liver pate gives way to lentil pate, steak is replaced by tofu cutlet and a banana-and-ice-cream dessert is made with rice milk instead of cow's milk. Lanza's critter-free meal has less than half the calories of a meat-heavy dinner and a third of the total fat. And lest you think meat-free eating means protein-free eating, the percentage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's For Dinner? | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

...Appealing to a slightly wider audience, these are labels without designers. While The Gap has succeeded in creating a GAP style that rivals any other in the pages of Vogue, Banana Republic has taken the approach of replicating and then mass-producing the couture look, so effectively that the differences become superficially indistinguishable, wooing many among the couture crowd...

Author: By John A. Burton, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Is Fashion Dead? | 11/5/1999 | See Source »

...large personalities of the industry. Despite the attention to individual detail, though, Agins seems to have only constructed these figures so that they might be situated into a faulty Doomsday scheme of history. Far from the whimpering, feeble creature that Agins suggests, fashion--whether Ungaro, Tommy, or Banana--has become one of few artistic forces to seize upon contemporary American culture with a resounding bang, not a whimper...

Author: By John A. Burton, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Is Fashion Dead? | 11/5/1999 | See Source »

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