Word: fruitful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When it comes to demonstrations, few countries can match France for style or frequency. Piqued farmers fill Parisian streets with fruit and vegetables to protest low prices; striking truckers shut down major highways until their demands for better working conditions are addressed. And last week, another howling, angry mob jammed a cavernous exhibition hall in Paris to vent its outrage over a proposed change in French labor law. Only this time the participants were senior executives and business owners...
...Jobs is deeply into this. He sits there nibbling on dried fruit, quaffing his latest Odwalla fruit juice--he loves the new twist-off caps--and perusing the timeline like a rabbi studying Talmud, looking up every few minutes with another pressing question: When do the TV ads start? What's this NASCAR thing about? How about theme-park events? Can they schedule a later meeting to review the billboards? Which news-mag show should they be pushing for? Is it possible, if the movie opens big on Thanksgiving--like incredibly, unbelievably big--that Disney might delay the date when...
...seems incomplete unless one is rubbed with freshly grated ginger or kneaded with heated stones (some of which are even placed between your toes) culled from Southwestern rivers. Just trying to choose the right facial can raise your blood pressure: Should it be a glycolic peel or a fruit peel? Some dermatologists have even created "medispas," doing cosmetic procedures like dermabrasions in spalike surroundings...
...longer. Even when living conditions are spare and amenities few, people find volunteer vacationing an enriching experience. In Ghana, Carnright, 74, stayed in a hostel-style building with seven other volunteers, sharing simple meals of rice and chicken or fish and fruit. "It was a healthy experience," she says. And not all that expensive: the $1,850 program fee, not including airfare, is tax deductible...
...COMMUNITY OF EQUALS-Adam I. Arenson; FORBIDDEN FRUIT-Lauren E. Baer