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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doesn't try to do anything more than give a quick and superficial tour of the Amazonian rain forests. Even with all the colorful visual distractions sprinkled throughout the film, one can't help but notice the handling of this clumsy plot. The persistent "rain forests can cure anything" mantra is annoyingly condescending, but without it, one might as well be watching a per-flight nature video with complementary Vivaldi playing on the soundtrack. Incidentally, the musical score is one of the better aspects of the film. It is majestic, holy and beautiful, right when it needs...

Author: By Patty Li, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Wet and Wild in the IMAX's 'Amazon' | 10/16/1998 | See Source »

...intoxicating (or rather intoxicated) scents of urine and puke will probably stink up your weekend, so figure out how to use smells to cure stuff. Enjoy University Health Services' workshop entitled "Benefits of Complementary Therapies : Aromatherapy" with certified aromatherapist Jim Harrison. While gnoshing on some free refreshments, get to know UHS because you may wind up there later this weekend with an IV stuck in your arm and a pump up your ass. 12 to 1 p.m., UHS, Holyoke Center, 75 Mt. Auburn St., Monks Library, second floor, 495-9629. FREE...

Author: By Sara Reistad-long, | Title: LISTINGS | 10/15/1998 | See Source »

Brazil must endure a painful cure, including possible tax increases and spending cuts. Its success or failure will decide not only the well-being of the world's ninth-largest economy--and the preservation of the strong, dollar-pegged currency, the real--but also possibly the fate of the global system of free trade and investment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Next Big Test: Brazil | 10/12/1998 | See Source »

...problem with the stock market is that it has become alienated from the real world by its own insane pace [SPECIAL REPORT, Sept. 14]. If short-term investment in stocks was made impossible, the market would cure itself of this insanity. The connection between actual company profits and stock prices now seems thin indeed, and the notion that you invest in a company to get a share of that company's profits has almost been lost. To buy shares in a company for less than a year can't possibly be deemed serious. Profits from such short-term investments ought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 12, 1998 | 10/12/1998 | See Source »

...while acknowledging the benefits that alternative forms of medicine offer, students should be wary of confusing prevetative medicine with general cure. Director of the Bureau of Study Council, Charles P. Ducey says therapies like massage may not get at the underlying issue that causes student malaise: namely stress...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New UHS Lecture Series Expands Array of Campus Medical Choices | 10/9/1998 | See Source »

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