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Horse trainers feed it to their thoroughbreds during the racing season, fish lovers raise their most prized species in it, horticulturalists nurture exotic African violets with it-and people drink it. It is bottled water, and it is used for all those things because it is supposed to be purer...
FTC attorneys are concerned about deceptive labeling and advertising of the water inside the bottle. To well-traveled Americans, bottled water evokes exotic, health-giving European spas. In the U.S., however, only 1% of bottled water is imported-and, of course, now subject to the 10% surtax. Only half of...
The Jesus Revolution (TIME, June 23) includes preachers of hellfire and promoters of love, fundamentalist Christians, mainstream Protestants, and even some Roman Catholics. Most, however, at least share a common belief in the basic tenets of Christianity: the triune nature of God, the divinity of Jesus Christ, the Gospels as...
The music proved typical of Villa-Lobos' best work: brooding, feverish, full of exotic percussion effects. Conductor Christopher Keene admitted, "It's got a little Stravinsky, a little Debussy, a little Puccini, a little Richard Strauss -but a lot of Villa-Lobos." It sometimes sounded as attractive as...
As Banham sees it, Los Angeles' hall-mark is a glorious spontaneity. Certainly the city fostered a self-confident new architecture unlike any other elsewhere. A good example is Simon Rodia's famous Watts towers, which are "unlike anything else in the world." A true Southern California building...