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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...
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...
...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...
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...
...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...