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Still, not everyone is keen on the idea of packaging spirituality. Once the profit motive comes into play, "it's difficult to keep things pure," says George Churinoff, a monk at Deer Park Buddhist Center in Oregon, Wis., who was involved with Intentional Chocolate in its early stages. "Then [the product] may not be blessed in any way with motivation except maybe to make money...
Eager to stop more teams quitting the sport, and keen to make races far more competitive, international motor-racing bosses have instituted a slew of changes to Formula One for the 2009 season. The overhaul, agreed to by the teams in December, is designed to cut costs in the fantastically expensive sport by at least 30%. The drivers and cars that pull away in the opening Grand Prix in Australia on March 29 will have to make do with fewer engines to get them through the season, cope with a lower limit on engine revs and learn how to handle...
Since the Georgia-Russia war last August, Brussels has been keen to draw Belarus away from Moscow and closer into its camp. The first step last October was the suspension of an E.U. visa ban against Belarus' authoritarian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka and other top officials. That relaxation of the travel restrictions, which were first instituted in 2006 after a rigged presidential election and violent crackdown on protestors, was renewed last week. In another sign of mending relations, the E.U.'s foreign policy chief Javier Solana visited Minsk on Feb. 19 for meetings with top Belarusian officials. E.U. leaders...
Investors keen to protect their precious cash have sought security in all the usual places in recent months. The U.S. dollar, the Swiss franc and the Japanese yen - each with a history as a safe haven - have all provided homes for nervous depositors' cash. But as the economies of those three countries flounder, it's time to look around, and smart investors think they've discovered a new harbor to protect them from the choppy economic seas. "The best safe haven currency," analysts at banking giant HSBC wrote in a research note this month, is Norway's. According to HSBC...
Eating at Michelin-starred restaurants doesn't normally involve being violently ill afterwards. So ever since 400 diners at British chef Heston Blumenthal's famed Fat Duck restaurant reported symptoms like nausea and diarrhea in mid-February, food connoisseurs have been keen to know what - or who - to blame. On Thursday, Blumenthal revealed the likely culprit: the highly contagious Norwalk virus, commonly known as norovirus...