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Sleep, of all things, is going natural. According to the International Sleep Products Association, sales of mattresses and foundations shipped by the U.S. mattress industry are increasing more than 10% annually, and totaled $6.396 billion at wholesale in 2005. The noninnerspring mattress segment is showing even more strength, and grew 28% between 2004 and 2005. It's clear that natural-latex mattresses (the terms natural latex and natural rubber are often used interchangeably) are coming into their own. "The latex category, including synthetic blends, is creating a strong buzz in the industry," says Dave Perry, executive editor of trade publication...
...segment “Stephen goes to Harvard,” aired on Comedy Central on Dec. 20, Stephen Colbert presented the portrait as a gift to IOP Director Jeanne Shaheen...
...Critics of The Secret, and even some fans, are bothered by its obsession with using ancient wisdom to acquire material goods. In one segment, a kid who wants a red BMX bicycle cuts out a picture in a catalog, concentrates real hard, and is rewarded with the spiffy two-wheeler. The Secret"is like having the universe as your catalog," says Joe Vitale, who is called a "metaphysician" in the film but whose website bills him as "Mr. Fire" - a marketing consultant with the power to sway consumers with a "hypno-buying trance." "The get-rich-quick parts really bothered...
...January, at TIME's heavily fortified Baghdad bureau, I was shown a video by Iraqi human rights workers. In the first segment of the video, grieving Iraqi families were collecting bodies at a morgue. The second part showed the interior of two houses whose walls were spattered with blood and pitted with bullet holes. I asked who had carried out this savagery. I assumed it was part of the daily butchery that Sunni and Shiite extremists inflict on innocent Iraqis. The activist from the Hammurabi Human Rights groups replied: "It was done by you Americans. Marines...
...reason, but on a transpersonal relationship with a higher power. I would beg His Holiness to enunciate the connection between faith and reason in the context of humanity as a whole. Faith is neither Christian, Islamic, Hindu, Jewish nor Buddhist, nor is it a monopoly of any one segment of the human race. It is also appalling that the 9/11 events-a crude, revengeful act by a few semi-educated individuals-has drawn the battle lines of a supposed clash of civilizations, allowing the Pope to deliver an address remarkable for its ignorance of history. Tariq Jamil Lahore, Pakistan...