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...green groups, the indigenous peoples of Ecuador - the Cofán, Siona, Secoya, Kichwa, and Huaorani - are the Na'vi. They're fighting the same battle to preserve their wooded home and way of life against the encroachment of a foreign corporation. "There are so many parallels to Ecuador [in the film]," says Maria Ramos, director of the Rainforest Action Network's Change Chevron campaign. "We want Avatar fans to take off the 3D glasses and support a real-life struggle." (See pictures of the world's most polluted places...
...medicine men guide them through all-night ayahuasca rituals. Sting and Tori Amos have admitted sampling it in Latin America, where it is legal, as has Paul Simon, who chronicled the experience in his song "Spirit Voices." "It heals the body and the spirit," says Eustacio Payaguaje, 51, a Cofán Indian shaman who regularly treks to Bogotá to lead weekend ayahuasca ceremonies in the city. "It is medicine for the soul." (Read "The Year in Medicine 2008: From...
...chicory, a nutty-flavored herb long used in Europe and the U.S. South to "stretch" coffee, and at $2.88 per 8-oz. jar, it costs less than the company's regular instant brands. The Chicago-based Jewel Food chain reports brisk sales of its own $3.19-per-lb. cof-fee-and-chicory blend at stores in the Midwest...
Britons, who already pay among the world's highest income taxes (a top executive with a $14,000 annual salary hands over $4,100 to Her Majesty's cof fers), now face higher purchase taxes on thousands of consumer items from liquor to lollipops, TV sets to autos. The tax on Scotch rose 300, to $4.80, lifting the total purchase price of a bottle to $6.48. Because of the tax, cigarettes rose 20, to 670 a pack (total tax: 450), and gasoline increased 40, to 730 for an imperial gallon (total tax: 470). The new levy added...
...Saints can now question some of the church's peculiar disciplines without being stigmatized by their neighbors. Although the U.S. Surgeon General's report on smoking confirmed the Mormon conviction that tobacco is an evil, there is widespread feeling that the church should relax its ban on cof fee and tea. "A lot of good Mormons drink coffee now," says one Utah saint. "The church should not make its prohibition a commandment." Still another quaint tradition is the Mormons' use of "temple garments"-a torso-covering form of underclothing signifying their covenant with the Lord-which devout...