Word: sugar
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...Body Shop: the latest body-care brand to tout its politically correct credentials is Pure Fiji (purefiji.com). Based in the Fijian capital of Suva, the company has won kudos of late for its all-natural products. Celebrities such as Rachel Hunter and Rosanna Arquette have been pictured enjoying its sugar rubs and coconut massage oil, while hip boutiques such as Fred Segal in the U.S. have started stocking the range. If Pure Fiji's products leave you feeling good, so will its relationship with the community. Since its founding 10 years ago, the company has trained villagers in the Namosi...
Bodh Gaya has benefited the most, but the pilgrim business, like a magic wand, is transforming places all along the Buddhist circuit. Kushinagar, in Uttar Pradesh, appears at first glance to be another no-hope town: many of the sugar mills that employed the townspeople have recently closed, and unemployment is rampant. Yet the town is seeing a real estate boom, roads are markedly better than anywhere around and children go to well-maintained schools. Kushinagar is where the Buddha died, and pilgrims come to see the gilded statue that commemorates the spot where the Buddha attained nirvana as well...
...four decades. But nowadays only the biggest Asian movies seem to survive at the box office, so when the Hong Kong-based director sat down to plan his first Chinese film in years, he decided to wrap a small love story in a musical coat. "It was like the sugar that helps you draw the audience back into the theater," he says. "But I had no idea what it was going to look like...
...Ukraine's would-be reformers are running out of juice. Last week President Viktor Yushchenko fired his entire government, including former ally Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko, after mutual accusations of corruption by their teams. Prices are skyrocketing; foreign investors are gun-shy as severe shortages of gasoline, meat and sugar spread. The President's move was "absolutely illogical," said Tymoshenko in a televised speech, blaming the crises on Yushchenko's cronies. The Cabinet implosion was triggered by the dramatic resignation of Olexander Zinchenko, the President's Chief of Staff, who furiously denounced as corrupt Yushchenko's top aide Olexander Tretyakov...
...make any sense. You know what happens "on a cellular level" when you eat that junk? You get a lot more cells. It had got so dire that I had taken to eating carbs at restaurants as a punk gesture of rebellion, dipping mashed-potato sandwiches in granulated sugar and inventing something I call Cake-Ravioli Cereal, which, if I can ever figure out how to get it on a stick, will undoubtedly be a huge hit at state fairs...