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...while hip 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...
...your step). One more word of advice: guides and drivers will often try to steer you to a shop or gallery run by a friend or family member, few of which will rival these three favorite galleries of our own suggestions. THE LEMPAD HOUSE This gallery on Ubud's main drag, Jalan Raya Ubud, occupies the former home of Bali's most famous artist, I Gusti Nyoman Lempad, who died in 1978 at the age of 116. There isn't much of his work on display - it's mainly by other artists, including Lempad's grandchildren and great-grandchildren...
...economy," says Witold Orlowski, an adviser to outgoing President Aleksander Kwasniewski. No party ever gets the blame, for example, for Poland's groaning state finances. But now, Orlowski argues, persuading voters to accept the need for painful structural reforms and a slimmer welfare state "will be the main political task of the new government." Are the two Solidarity veterans up to it? They'd better be. Since joining the E.U. last year, Poland's been on something of a roll. The country has enjoyed impressive growth (an expected 4% this year), booming exports of food and some manufactured goods...
...beverage empire. Additionally, she excerpts actual news stories of the day. Lastly, in the margins of each page are voices from the dead commenting on or clarifying plot points. For example, when, early in the book, Henry fails to appear at the department store for a lunch date, the main text recounts that Lydia "was seized by an odd constricture of her throat ... he had never been late before," while the margin notes reassure, "Henry was not late ... he was at that moment hyperventilating behind a mannequin...
...order for the main force to move comes on Sept. 2. That day, in an armored squadron pushing into the city from the north and the south, Grim Troop's Blue Platoon, dubbed the Dragoons, enters from the southeast along an artery code-named Route Corvette, into a predominantly Shi'ite neighborhood. Within 30 minutes, they come under sniper fire. A three-man sniper team from the élite Iraqi Counterterrorism Task Force (akin to the U.S. Delta Force), with a pair of U.S. special-forces liaisons, takes positions in front of the platoon, scanning for muzzle flashes...