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Like other believers, many New Agers attach great importance to artifacts, relics and sacred objects, all of which can be profitably offered for sale: Tibetan bells, exotic herbal teas, Viking runes, solar energizers, colored candles for "chromotherapy," and a Himalayan mountain of occult books, pamphlets, instructions and tape recordings. Some of these magical products are quite imaginative. A bearded Colorado sage who calls himself Gurudas sells "gem elixirs," which he creates by putting stones in bowls of water and leaving them in the sun for several hours, claiming that this allows the water to absorb energy from...
...emerge after the individual was beaten down by group pressure, exhaustion and the desperate need to have five minutes alone. Travel with any of the current contenders in a van in Iowa and New Hampshire, and you are certain to encounter half a dozen reporters working on psycho-profiles. Tape recorders at the ready, they push and prod the candidate for his formative experiences: Was your father cruel, did your mother feed you gruel, were you popular in school, did you break the Golden Rule...
...children whose parents rarely make it home in time to tell bedtime stories, Lewis Galoob offers Dozzzy ($60), a blue-pajamaed doll stuffed with a tape recorder that is activated when a child squeezes its hand. The doll supervises the bedtime ritual: "Did you remember to brush your teeth?" and "Is the light turned out?" As it asks about the child's day, the questions are punctuated with suggestive yawns. To spare the batteries, a microprocessor tells the doll to turn itself off once the child falls asleep and stops squeezing the toy. The bedtime companion comes in two forms...
...could the Harvard women's hockey team's 7-0 blanking of Boston College last night have been? Look at the tale of the tape...
Perhaps the biggest question is what position Sony will take in the controversy over a new technology called digital audio tape, which can record music with the clarity of a compact disc. CBS Records had been a leading advocate of limiting the technology, contending that it would prompt more home taping and pirating, while Sony has pushed DAT as the next wave in home audio. Now the company will have an interest in both arguments. Experts believe Sony may support a compromise, in which DAT recorders would be permitted in the U.S., but would be equipped with devices designed...