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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...experience recommended in some guidebooks. When I declined my new friends offer, he wondered instead if I might not like to buy some hash. I’d been offered hash in Delhi and Kolkata too, but the frequency of offers in Puri, (including from one especially loony rickshaw-wala), when in fact the sparse Western crowd seemed a bit tame, made me wonder if “high season” had permanently departed the town (or at least its backpacker quarter, the Indian holiday business seemed to be thriving).In Kolkata the scams had carried their own character?...

Author: By Max J Kornblith, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In a Puri State of Mind | 1/15/2009 | See Source »

Founded in 1967 by chemist Rudolf Hauschka and aesthetician Elisabeth Sigmund, the beauty company's lab, WALA Heilmittel is in Erfelden, Germany. WALA stands for Warmth-Ash-Light-Ash, representing the rhythmical, water-based extraction process used after plants are harvested by hand at sunrise?when the oils are most concentrated?yielding bath oils, skin treatments and cosmetics without alcohol or preservatives. "Rather than suppressing one symptom like dryness or oiliness, we activate the skin's ability to heal itself," says Kurz, whose book, Awakening Beauty, will be published...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not Your Average Night Cream | 4/20/2006 | See Source »

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