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...suggestions and helps nudge shoppers in the right direction by grouping items by personality (click Lifestyle for the site's picks for the decorator, the entertainer, the spa seeker, the traveler). To be really hip, browse GIRLSHOP.COM for clothing and accessories from more than 100 "indie" designers, from Anna Kula's hand-knit caps to Zoe Vice's low-cut cords; there's a guy shop and a tot shop too. If you're in the mood to splurge, ELUXURY.COM features apparel, leather goods, jewelry, crystal and other high-end items from the likes of Dior, DKNY, Fendi, Marc Jacobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Click Smart | 11/18/2002 | See Source »

...Kula, Hawaii...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Missile Strike | 6/22/1987 | See Source »

...Kula, Maui, Hawaii

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 17, 1983 | 1/17/1983 | See Source »

...Kula, Hawaii...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 25, 1982 | 1/25/1982 | See Source »

Vacations may be pointless. The Trobriand Islanders of Melanesia once found themselves with an embarrassment of leisure. Their yams came up so abundantly that they had no need to work for their food. To occupy their excesses of spare time, the islanders devised the Kula, a ceremonial maritime exchange of economically worthless objects- red shell necklaces and white shell bracelets. The Kula, in formal circuit around the islands, was the vacation and vocation of the people. They became their own quaintness, their own tourist trap. It is possible, in the end, that they even took American Express...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Are Vacations Really Necessary? | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

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