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...monastery for the first time this afternoon. "It's a great blessing," says Sister Antoinette excitedly. Otherwise, the day has proceeded calmly for the sisters. For many of them, breakfast was "bread with honey straight from the hive," reports Sister Veronica. And fish for lunch, plus plenty of fruit "and because we don't have meat, we just throw in peanuts for the protein." But no alcohol. As Sister Veronica puts it, "We have a regular life, marked by a moderate austerity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In a State of Grace | 7/29/2004 | See Source »

...plain-English by-laws to help its members stay out of trouble, it's a relatively peaceful and orderly town, with simple modern architecture and vegetable gardens - except when chairman Bruce Smith turns on his outdoor electronic keyboard: "I can make all the noise I want and entertain the fruit trees," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spreading the Word | 7/29/2004 | See Source »

...terrible!” Later, when I remarked on her harshness towards my artisic expression, she explained that it wasn’t personal and rather was because she “just doesn’t like modern art.” I doubt my drawings of fruit (lumps) constitute “modern art,” but I accepted it as a compliment...

Author: By J. hale Russell, | Title: Drawing on Another Side | 7/23/2004 | See Source »

...thought of slurping a raw egg makes you gag, try easing your hangover with some prickly-pear fruit extract. Researchers in--where else?--New Orleans asked 55 volunteers, ages 21 to 35, to get drunk and endure a hangover for the sake of science. Half the tipplers were given an extract of the prickly-pear cactus plant before their binges; the other half were given a placebo. the following morning, people who took the cactus extract suffered significantly less from nausea, dry mouth and loss of appetite than those who got placebos. The latter group also had 40% higher blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: The Cactus Cure | 7/12/2004 | See Source »

...subtle, but the message sticks. At stores where kids received free samples of V8 Splash Fruit Medley, it became the top-selling flavor, according to Field Trip Factory. In another case, sales of children's toothpaste shot up 18%. "These field trips are nothing more than a way to clobber a captive audience of impressionable children with ads," says Gary Ruskin of Commercial Alert, a watchdog group. But Abbie Levi, whose daughter Sarah asked for a hamster after attending the Petco field trip, says simply, "Parents have the power to say no." Easier said than done. --By Lisa Takeuchi Cullen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Retailing: Brand-Name Field Trips | 6/28/2004 | See Source »

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