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...called socially responsible investing funds, which buy only the sort of stocks that the Volvo-driving, soy-cappuccino-sipping liberal elite approves of, are everywhere these days. According to Lipper, the mutual-fund-tracking service, 199 SRI funds today manage $21.6 billion, up from 88 funds with $12.9 billion in 1999. The very names of the stocks these funds own--Horizon Organic, Nature's Sunshine, Peoples Energy and Progressive Corp.--would give a Berkeley sociology professor the warm fuzzies...
...tasty enough but monotonous, with an emphasis on meat and potatoes and garnished alternately by pickles and pineapple. (We did have ice-cream sundaes, on the appropriate day of the week.) Yet Victor's cooking went down well with the crew?young guys from the Philippines, Maldives and Sri Lanka, who needed heavy doses of protein to fuel their labor. When I felt a push against the waistline of my pants, I started visiting the ship's little workout room for stationary cycling and pulling on the weight machines...
...STREAMS OF RAGA MUSIC. Maestro Padmabhushan Sri Lalgudi Jayaraman, a legendary musician of the South Indian Carnatic and Hindustani styles of music, will lead this workshop on the acoustic method he revolutionized. Friday, April 25, 6:30 p.m. Tickets $25, $15 students. (781) 862-9648 or email vanita@merufoundation.org for more information. Sackler Museum, 465 Broadway...
Gary Eisenberg has climbed mountains in Sri Lanka and scuba dived in Thailand. He has worked in a boatyard in Turkey and bartended in Portugal. He has roamed Egypt, Morocco and New Guinea. Yet this seasoned traveler--who globe-trotted for a decade before settling (at least for now) in New York City as a corporate lawyer--rarely takes a guidebook along. "As soon as a place gets listed," he explains, "everybody goes there. The quality drops, and it is hard...
Hideaway-resort king Adrian Zecha, of Amanresorts, is restoring Galle's 300-year-old New Oriental Hotel, a veritable museum of Dutch-colonial furnishings. He is also creating a beach resort in Tangalla and will no doubt take his celebrity clients with him. If Sri Lanka is calling you, now is the time to make a move...