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...medical director of the Treehouse Center in Albuquerque, N.M., and the moment you get there, you know you're not in an ordinary clinic. It's partly the eponymous tree that grows through the center of the building, partly the soft cotton gown you wear during an exam instead of a crinkly paper disposable one. Mostly, however, it's the treatment you receive--a lyrical balance of Western pharmaceuticals, traditional botanicals and sensible advice on lifestyle changes...
...half years ago, she joined with the German company Puma to start up a line of clothing for what she calls "mind/body sports," like yoga, tai chi and chi gong. She's now at work on the fourth collection of the series, called Nuala. The clothes are mostly cotton, though some are microfibers, and are produced in muted, earthy colors such as gray, black, ivory and burnt pumpkin. Some you'd wear in class, some you'd wear to and from...
DIED. MAUDE RUTHERFORD, 104, the "Slim Princess" and Cotton Club singer and dancer who claimed to have introduced the Charleston to Broadway in the 1922 all-black revue Liza; in Atlantic City, N.J. Despite her considerable talent, Rutherford, who worked with Josephine Baker, was usually cast as comic relief, never the star...
Rodriguez, however, pushes into uncharted territory through the cotton-candy dreamscape world of his impish villain Floop (a marvelous Alan Cumming), a Pee-Wee Herman clone who serves as ringmaster for a Teletubbies-styled kiddie show and dreams of-what else-world domination. Some of the elements in his towering, Gothic seaside castle reflect a vibrant visual imagination, most notably a sprawling floor that proves to be composed of giant jigsaw puzzle pieces. Others, such as the robot minions whose limbs consist of nothing but thumbs, smack of watered-down Tim Burton...
...look like a vision of destruction, but Nguyen Van Quyen sees riches rising from the ashes. He's looking not at the felled trees, but at the rows of green bushes next to them. For every fire in Dak Lak province, there is more land to grow coffee and cotton. And Quyen has a hectare to plant. For a young man of 24, with a wife and new baby, it's a dream come true. "We had no money and no land back home," he says. "Here we have a chance...