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...that were as good for the earth as they were for your skin - was still considered radical, the kind of thing only hippies cared about. But when Anita Roddick opened The Body Shop in 1976, she wasn't thinking about changing the world, just supporting her family while her husband followed his lifelong dream of trekking across the Americas on horseback. It was almost by accident that she started a revolution...
...Shanghai, 1942, where four Chinese ladies in the home of Mrs. Yee (Joan Chen) are deep in those twin devious pleasures, mahjong and gossip. What three of them don't know is that the fourth, Mak Tai Tai (Tang Wei), is embarking on an affair with Mrs. Yee's husband (Tony Leung Chiu-wai), a high-level government official collaborating with the occupying Japanese. Indeed, her name is not Mak Tai Tai but Wang Chia Chih, an operative of the underground Resistance. Her mission is to seduce and kill...
...weeks after my husband died last year, I gave in to the opinion that I should seek counseling. I sat in a psychiatrist's office crying while she tapped away on her laptop and asked such ridiculous questions as "Are you depressed?" and "Are you sad?" My responses were along the lines of "My husband just died. Aren't I supposed to feel this way?" She declared I was - surprise! - clinically depressed and shoved a few prescriptions at me. I took them for about two weeks until I realized I needed to feel the grief. I threw out the pills...
...opinion is shared by many at EVI, who came as much for the village as for the eco. What many of us might dread--all community, all the time--ecovillagers seek out. Laura Beck, 42, and her husband moved to EVI from Austin, Texas, in 2001 with their son Ethan, then 2. The family thrived in the village. The couple's marriage did not, and they soon divorced. Instead of leaving, Beck just switched to a new house, while her ex-husband stayed in their first home, with Ethan walking between the two. "I never thought about moving out," says...
...familiar house in a great location. Buying while you still have children at home is a bonus. The kids will feel invested in the place, make friends and want to visit more often when they're older. Six years ago, Nancy Fernandez Mills, 59, and her husband Mark, 58, sold their house in the Boston suburbs. They bought a condo downtown and a country home in the Berkshires in western Massachusetts. With three grown children and in-laws all living out of town, "our place in the Berkshires has become the place to come for Thanksgiving and other holidays," says...