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PHISH to reunite. Hemp futures skyrocket...
...skateboards, for example, are made of Canadian maple, which takes 50 years to mature. But bamboo is replaced in a tenth of that time. Hence Bob Burnquist, one of the world's top pro skateboarders, and his sponsor Flip have been developing a type of board made of bamboo, hemp and maple that he began using in competition in July. You don't have to go "full, purist radical," Burnquist says. His goal? "Connect the coolness factor to the reality of what's possible...
...started when I took elementary Mandarin my first year at Harvard. Chinese is an extraordinary language. The sound “ma,” when said with one of four different tones, can mean mother, hemp, horse, or scold. “Mama ma ma” can mean “Mother scolded the horse.” The language relies on the intricacies of tone and the movements of the mouth, tongue, and throat rather than only the sounds...
...more old-fashioned strain of high-minded celebrity daffiness shines through on Hollywood Green, which is basically Access Hollywood edited down to the stars' red-carpet prattling about their hemp wardrobes and chemical-free nurseries. (I have waited in vain for a segment on organic Botox and biodegradable implants.) Justin Timberlake builds an eco-friendly golf course. Host Maria Menounos enlists an "eco-designer" to redo her summer cabana. "Green is beautiful!" she declares. Sure it is, if you have a freaking cabana and a personal decorator...
...example. Despite her forceful (if indeterminate) advocacy of radical change and membership in numerous campus activist groups, her strong analytic skills and 3.8 GPA destine her for work at Morgan Stanley. She shows up at six every morning, never telling her coworkers that she continues to wear hemp underwear and vote Democrat. Maya retires at age 52 to found her long-envisioned development NGO / feminist book club, but only after 30 years of exploiting cheap foreign labor and throwing toxic waste into rivers just...