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...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 Highlands, on the main Fijian island of Viti Levu, in the preparation of plant extracts and the natural paper used in Pure Fiji's packaging. The company also funds scholarships for its employees' children. The good works haven't gone unnoticed. The Fijian government has twice named the company Exporter of the Year. Business is booming...
...theme park, Gravity Max is the world's only "tilt coaster." That means it's not just the cars that move. The track does, too, tilting at a terrifying 88deg angle as screaming riders hurtle through space. Cyclone New York A 1927 creation on New York City's Coney Island, this ride was named a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 1991. It's the world's most copied roller coaster, with seven replicas operating in the U.S., Europe and Japan. The Ultimate Ripon, England If you're a glutton for punishment, you'll enjoy the Ultimate, one of the world
Four months after their barefoot beach wedding on the Caribbean island of St. John, actress RENEE ZELLWEGER, 36, and her country-singer husband KENNY CHESNEY, 37, have suddenly filed to annul their sudden marriage. In court papers, the Bridget Jones star cited "fraud" as the official reason for the annulment--a legal declaration that the union was invalid from the start--but clarified that the term is "simply legal language and not a reflection of Kenny's character" (though we're not sure she was around long enough to judge). In plain language, fraud means one partner deceived the other...
...edges and its complicated freedoms. The March is a more straightforward book than Ragtime. You won't find scenes here quite like the ones in that book in which J.P. Morgan and Henry Ford meet to trade views on the supernatural or Sigmund Freud takes Carl Jung to Coney Island (something that, by the way, actually occurred). But if the feelings this time flow more strictly from the facts, they flow abundantly all the same. At one point the thoughtful Emily defends herself against the merely rational Dr. Sartorius. "I do not reduce life to its sentiments," she insists...
...dramas just before 9/11. This fall, just after Hurricane Katrina, the lineup includes three sci-fi series about menaces from the water. Is it conspiracy? Clairvoyance? No, just TV: blame the success of ABC's Lost, in which plane-crash survivors battle eerie phenomena and seaborne attackers on an island...