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Dr. Kari Stefansson can trace his ancestry back 1,100 years. That's almost unheard of in the U.S., but in his native Iceland, where genealogy is a national obsession, it hardly raises an eyebrow. The island nation is a genetic anomaly: settled by a few Norsemen and Celts in...
With a sharp eye for the contemporary obsession with Eastern homeopathy, the weavers have dubbed their cloth "ayurvastra"-referring to the ayurvedic principles on which production is based. After cleaning, the raw yarn is coated with a natural gum, and it's then soaked in medicinal dyes prepared with pomegranate...
Never mind applying creams and lotions - if you could relieve a skin ailment simply by the kind of clothes you wear, or the bed linen you use, wouldn't you? The Handloom Weavers Development Society in Kerala , India , hopes so. The nonprofit organization - based in Thumbod, a tiny village of...
In "Martin Grant, Paris," at the Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia until May 7, that sense of evolution is astonishing to see. If the saying goes, "give me a child until he is seven, and I will give you the man," then in Grant's case the age was four...
A case can be made for targeted tax cuts to encourage socially beneficial behavior like research into alternative cars and fuels. A case can also be made-though Bush would rather see Brokeback Mountain than make it-for targeted tax increases to discourage things like, well, an addiction to oil...