In the summer of 1984, Burt Shavitz, a beekeeper in Maine, picked up Roxanne Quimby, a 33 year-old single mother down on her luck, as she hitch-hiked and Burt's Bees was born. After the couple split, the company was sold to Clorox for millions and 'the bee-man' returned to live in a turkey coop
By Louise Story
In the summer of 1984, Burt Shavitz, a beekeeper in Maine, picked up Roxanne Quimby, a 33-year-old single mother down on her luck, as she hitchhiked to the post office in Dexter, Maine. More than a dozen years Quimby's senior, the guy locals called "the bee-man" sold honey in pickle jars from the back of his pickup truck. To Quimby, he seemed to be living an idyllic life in the wilderness (including making his home inside a small turkey coop).

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In a more literal sense than cinematographers, production designers are responsible for the look of a film - they create its physical reality - and Jack Fisk's projects tend to be more physically demanding and more rooted in reality than most
By Dennis Lim
The production designer Jack Fisk has made a specialty of bringing lost worlds to life. In a more literal sense than cinematographers, production designers are responsible for the look of a film - they create its physical reality - and Fisk's projects tend to be more physically demanding and more rooted in reality than most.

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[ ENVIRONMENT ] Can jaguars stay out of harm's way?

Jaguars in the Pantanal seem to be on a teeter-totter that could tilt strongly in one direction or the other
By Madeleine Nash
The morning was just starting to heat up when a biologist, Ricardo Costa, set out to look for jaguars on Fazenda San Francisco, a 12,140-hectare cattle ranch, rice farm and wildlife reserve in the region of southwest Brazil known as the Pantanal.

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[BOOK REVIEW] 'After Dark's' strangers in the night exchange more than glances

Haruki Murakami's latest work takes place over a single night in Tokyo and is distinctly poignant and sad while also being brief and inconclusive
By Bradley Winterton
Haruki Murakami is by now a famous writer. He's someone who knows that whatever he sends to his publisher will certainly be published. Authors in such situations face particular temptations, and certain distinctive challenges.

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[BOOK REVIEW] Nutrition? That's an eating disorder

To help edibles fight back, Michael Pollan has written 'In Defense of Food,' a rebuttal to the argument that food can be stripped to its nutritional components
By Janet Maslin
Not all scientific study of Mars is about extraterrestrial exploration. Some of it is about chocolate. Scientists at Mars Corp. have found evidence that the flavanols in cocoa have beneficial effects on the heart, thus allowing Mars to market products like its health-minded Rich Chocolate Indulgence Beverage.

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