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...favorite is Kinugawa, north of Tokyo, near the ancient temple town of Nikko. Named for the glassy Kinu River it hugs, the old-fashioned onsen town so relaxes visitors that they wander its streets post-bath in cotton yukata robes. Hana no Yado Matsuya matsuya.co.jp) a venerable inn, features an impressive collection of dreamy Taisho-era portraits of kimono-clad beauties...
...closer look at the farm bill that takes effect Aug. 1 shows that two of the biggest beneficiaries are not really farmers. A deeply buried provision raises the level of subsidies to cotton mills and shippers. Sources tell TIME those businesses could reap $1.5 billion over the next six years--at a higher rate of increase than what Congress provided for cotton farmers themselves...
First passed in 1990, the cotton-shipper/mill subsidy program seeks to foster sales of American raw cotton by paying the difference between U.S. and foreign prices. But sources say politics was as strong an incentive as sales for the increase in the program this election year. The National Cotton Council, which gives generously to both parties, led the lobbying, representing such mills as Milliken & Co. and shippers like Dunavant Enterprises, whose owners also contribute heavily to campaigns. --By Michael Weisskopf
Mohandas Gandhi and Dhirubhai Ambani were the two most famous scions of the Modh Bania, a Hindu commercial caste based in the arid Saurashtra peninsula of India's western Gujarat state. The Mahatma idealized traditional village ways, passive resistance, and homespun cotton. Ambani, a billionaire industrialist, preached prosperity to a burgeoning Indian middle-class via a business empire built on polyester...
...connected to something truly profound. I recall the first time I went, as an altar boy, into the sacristy where the priest vested himself. I felt as if I were entering the most sacred place on Earth. The smell of incense, the touch of candle wax, the overly starched cotton of my surplice as I knelt before the sacred mystery of the Eucharist: in the words of the poet Philip Larkin, "a serious house on serious earth" this was, a refuge and a beacon, a rebuke to the chatter and trivia and destabilizing noise of the world outside and beyond...