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...began running the Bullitt Foundation, an endowment in Seattle that funds green projects in the Pacific Northwest. But the coming of the new millennium brought another test: take Earth Day to new heights in 2000. Besides the rallies, concerts, seminars and TV shows, Hayes plans to use a magic wand he didn't have in 1970 or 1990: the Internet. Through e-mail, websites and live Web events, Earth Day participants will be globally linked as never before. "Earth Day is for the environment what Martin Luther King Day is for civil rights," Hayes says. "We know what...
...Bogguss's Nobody Love, Nobody Gets Hurt, after debuting on the Billboard album chart at No. 42, has since slipped to No. 61, while Wariner's Burnin' the Roadhouse Down opened at No. 6 and fell to No. 21 last week. Pay-for-play is no magic wand. It can make a good record sell better but doesn't do much for an average...
...chose to be reborn on earth to enlighten others. A cornucopia of Mahayana offshoots sprang up over the centuries. Zen, which was adopted by the Japanese samurai class, combined chanting and teacher-student dialogue with an extremely strict sitting meditation practice, often enforced with whacks from a ceremonial wand. As a tool toward faster enlightenment, Zen's Rinzai school had its students wrestle conundrums, or koans, such as the famous query "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" The late-blooming Soka Gakkai practice, favored by Tina Turner, is also nominally a Japanese Mahayana offshoot, although rather atypical...
...both impossibly glamorous and a kind of universal Every Woman. TIME wrote in its walkup to the nuptials: "This wedding on the cusp of high noon, in front of a world short on ritual and parched for romance, is in fact one grand pass of the royal wand [in which] the future is assured and everyone can be queen...
Twenty-seven minutes into the first half, Stauffer collected a pass from junior back Rebe Glass and waved her magic wand. Stauffer tore down the middle, had a chicken-fight with her defender (which she won), staved off a defensive assault from the flank, and ripped a cross shot into the net to give Harvard a 1-0 lead...