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This year's highlights included performances at the Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, Occidental College outside of Los Angeles and St. Paul's Cathedral in San Diego.
$95 million: Cash remuneration Occidental Petroleum CEO Ray Irani received this past October
$375,000: Amount Occidental agreed to pay in 1995 for damage to birds and fish after dumping toxic waste in Love Canal
WASHINGTON: Sober, scientific Occidental medicine has always been a little condescending toward the mysteries of the East. Acupuncture, the idea that the body-wide insertion of long thin metal needles can ease pain, is no exception.
A memorable chapter deals with the Tarahumara Indians of "the rugged southwestern corner of the state of Chihuahua, in the heart of the Sierra Madre Occidental." They are legendary long- distance runners--tall, lean, high-cheekboned men who play a nonstop kickball game over what may be two days and...