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...shaman placed a bamboo shoot filled with hallucinogenic snuff against Mark Plotkin's left nostril and blew into the tube. Plotkin's head snapped back, he recalls, as if he "had been hit with a war club." Little men began dancing before his eyes. He asked the shaman who they were. "They are the hekuri," the wise man replied, "the spirits of the forest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forests: MARK PLOTKIN: In Search Of The Shamans' Vanishing Wisdom | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

Celebrity best sellers like Andrew Weil's 8 Weeks to Optimum Health (Knopf; $23) and Jean Carper's Miracle Cures (HarperCollins; $25) may promise more than they can deliver, but they do contain healthful hints. If you want to add adventure, read Mark Plotkin's Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice (Penguin; $14), which shows how ethnobotanists comb jungles for natural cures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hitting The Books On Herbal Cures | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

...screen projects in the works on subjects ranging from T. Rex (shot by Lawnmower Man director Brett Leonard) to (shhh, the deal isn't final yet!) Star Trek and 3-D animation. A recent release, Amazon, is a story of tribal shaman Julio Mamani and ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Imax Gets Bigger (By Getting Smaller) | 6/29/1998 | See Source »

Since last December, NACS's legal counsel, Arent, Fox, Kinter, Plotkin & Kahn, has collected nearly 80 complaints from more than 50 stores, which show that publishers offer a 40 percent discount rate to independent book stores and only 20 percent to college stores...

Author: By Jal D. Mehta, | Title: University Press Accused of Price Discrimination | 4/1/1997 | See Source »

...busts in the past at now moribund places like Wang. Starting salaries, which ranged from the high 20s to the high 30s a year ago, now start in the high 30s and go up to $50,000 a year. "We have a wild market at the moment," says Joyce Plotkin, executive director of the Massachusetts Software Council, who predicts more double-digit employment growth over the next two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHERE THE JOBS ARE | 1/20/1997 | See Source »

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