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...raucous street party in Salem over the weekend, and the whole year-round industry that has sprung up in town around witches and witchcraft, is a sort of macabre parody of a gruesome episode in the town's history. Everyone who comes to Haunted Happenings, the official name of the celebration, knows what happened in Salem to put it on the Halloween map. But that's just one more reason to buy the T-shirt. In the end, the witch trials are just a great excuse for a party...
Most experts believe that only 50,000 to 70,000 chirus remain, down from well over a million earlier this century. In 1975 a U.N. convention forbade all trade in the species. But that hasn't stopped the killing of thousands in recent years. Poachers armed with semiautomatics hunt the animal year-round, and not just when the chirus' coats are thickest. Despite the threat of seven years in jail or a $130 fine, poachers continue to pursue their prey...
...Fifteen years ago, New York City psychotherapist Natalie H. Rogers reluctantly allowed herself to be persuaded to accompany a friend on a yoga retreat in the Bahamas. The experience turned out to be so wonderful that the following year, Rogers went again--with 16 of her patients. And she's been going ever since. "The minute I get there, something inside of me relaxes," she says. "And after I get back, I continue to feel blissed out for a long time." The Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat on Paradise Island, open year-round, is not for everyone. The accommodations are spartan...
...equity loans to buy, among other things, an Isuzu Trooper, a vacation home and an adjacent lot. Currently, he is drawing on a $60,000 line of credit to finance his highly seasonal business, which gets nearly all its revenue during spring tax-preparation time but must pay bills year-round...
WORK YOUR WAY UP School administrators, including Renee Shackelford, principal of Flat Shoals Elementary, a year-round school in Georgia, have learned that if you are planning to introduce uniforms into the schools, it is easier to start with younger students. That's because, she explains, their "parents are still making a lot of the decisions...