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...Iowa Conference of the United Church for Christ will launch Rainbow Family Camp, a weekend retreat for gay families. And this past June saw the debut of the glossy bimonthly And Baby, a magazine for gay and lesbian parents. Many of its articles are the usual child-rearing-magazine fare, but others, like "Finding a Gay-Friendly Physician," deal with situations unique to gay families. Sold in every state, And Baby has already spun off a call-in radio show, Tuned In to Modern Parenting, airing in over 50 cities, including Phoenix, Ariz., and Providence...
...slow boat was half the fare for the souped-up floating dragsters that rend the Mekong's serenity with their high-pitched whine?and probably 50 times safer. That it took two days to chug the 300 km downstream instead of six hours seemed a reasonable trade-off, particularly after watching boatloads of spray-drenched adventurers go roaring past, teeth clenched and legs braced against every bone-rattling bounce...
...Placed next to the appalling ego circuses of Eastern gurus such as Sai Baba or Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, the goings-on at Zen Center were pretty tame fare. But the real lure of Shoes Outside the Door: Desire, Devotion, and Excess at San Francisco Zen Center (Counterpoint; 385 pages) isn't the abuses and failings it chronicles, so much as the fact that they happened in the ever-elusive, and ever-alluring, world of Zen. Of all the Far Eastern spiritualities that Americans began importing as replacements for their own moribund faiths in the '60s and '70s, Zen has always...
...strength among the things I lacked—away from playing for Harvard and at not even twenty years old, I sadly settled into the aged condition of all washed up. A once proud three-sport varsity athlete, I now have to sate my athletic appetite on the meager fare of pickup basketball and IM softball...
...case with the glut of corporate trance, progressive house and “chill-out” tripe on record stores’ shelves, this strain of experimental electronic music is regarded by middlebrow hipsters as “intelligent” fare. Yet it owes everything to the hedonistic sounds originally crafted by inner-city youth...