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...industry is greeting these first forays into online services with caution. Doug Morris, chairman of the Universal Music Group, calls Pressplay "an exercise in trying to understand what's going on." There may be plenty of money to be made from selling raw MP3s and unlimited CD-burning privileges. But with major media companies so wedded to the old ways of selling music--nearly 40% of Vivendi's operating income flows from its media business--allowing users to burn from their catalog seems akin to dragging a large wooden horse into their boardroom...
Purveyors of raw or "living" food follow strict culinary standards: fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds--preferably organic--are fine, but meat, chicken and dairy are forbidden. Some chefs ban all added heat, while others accept temperatures of 120[degrees] or less, just barely enough to warm. With no stoves, the tools of the trade include food processors, juicers and dehydrators--along with plenty of ingenuity. "It's like being in a maze and finding you're up against the wall," says committed carnivore Norman Van Aken of Miami's Norman's, who, for fun, concocted a series of raw recipes...
There is a philosophy--of sorts--to the raw-food movement. Tolentin Chan, owner of Quintessence, argues that valuable nutrients remain intact when food is left in its natural state. O.K., that sounds reasonable enough--but there's more. "Living food has a life force," says Chan. "Eating life force gives you life force." Sushi, though raw, has no life force, explains Chan: "Once the fish is cut, the life force dies." If you ever have a dinner date with an enthusiast of the raw--or Yoda--now you know where to make reservations...
...reuse and recycle is based on the singularly flawed idea, according to the authors, that all things must pass into waste. Even if you turn that pop bottle into a fleece jacket?by applying brute force and chemical processing?that seemingly useful incarnation is just an additional step between raw material and landfill. "If humans are truly going to prosper, we will have to learn to imitate nature's highly effective cradle-to-cradle system of nutrient flow and metabolism, in which the very concept of 'waste' does not exist," they write. In other words, things shouldn't be made...
...Trained in skydiving, demolition and weapons handling, they were taught to kill with an ax and to hit an enemy in the eye with a knife from 10 meters. They learned to live off raw snakes and rats. Before each drill, they were made to bellow: "If you're caught, blow yourself up." Anyone who fell behind faced a beating from their guard-trainers. One recruit died in swimming endurance training, another fell off a cliff. The guards took one laggard into the ocean and nearly drowned him. Later they buried him on the beach with his head sticking...