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...Even though Turlington studies all six branches of yoga (and views her charity work and anti-smoking activism as seva - "service," an aspect of Karma Yoga), she's not critical of the popular exercise-oriented yoga boom, other than to worry some about the lack of standardization among teachers...
...1940s and 50s, Roach catalyzed the drum set’s redefinition with his sophisticated rhythmic approach. His Freedom Now Suite of 1960—a work banned by the Republic of South Africa—reflected his political concerns. In the 1970s Roach founded the M’BOOM Percussion Ensemble. Over the years, he has worked with actor Bill Cosby, poet Maya Angelou and playwright Sam Shepard, among others...
...You’ve been called a “monitor of music’s instincts.” This speaks to the way you’ve been on top of many movements in music, from Freedom Now to M’BOOM and on. Do you have any interesting plans for the future...
...think we may have horribly misinvested our money in the past decade, pouring it into research and development for Intel and Microsoft and Amazon. When I was a kid and we went through a boom, people put their money in cocaine and models and German cars. I don't think it helped, but it made for better conversation than going on about the price you bought Yahoo...
...instant jillionaires of the tech-stock IPO boom, pledging lavish gifts to charities and universities was a way of parading both their compassion and their clout. But with the tech bubble gone poof, many of those same promises are worth about as much as dotcom-stock shares. Cancel that new dorm...