| Roddick, Greenie who changed world
Anita Roddick, who died yesterday at 64, stamped "green" on the business world long before it was fashionable. Roddick, the British founder of beauty-products retailer Body Shop International and a longtime environmental activist, announced in February that she had hepatitis C. Her family said yesterday that she died of a brain haemorrhage in Chichester, West Sussex. She opened her first Body Shop store in 1976. Today the chain has more than 2100 stores in 55 countries. Roddick sold the company to L'Oreal, the world's largest cosmetics maker, last year in a deal valued at $1.2 billion. "She changed the world of business with her campaigns for social and environmental responsibility," said Body Shop chairman Adrian Bellamy.
Best Bulk Tea Selection
The beer renaissance has had its day in the United States. You're drinking better coffee these days than you were a decade ago, but it's costing you three or four times more than the old stuff did. What's next? Tea. After water, tea is the most consumed beverage in the world, so it's about time we Americans get with the program. And Seven Cups, which specializes in rare, handcrafted Chinese teas, is your favorite spot in town to do so. Whether you're an aficionado of white tea, green tea, yellow tea, black tea, oolong or one of the many others that we would probably spell incorrectly if we tried, Seven Cups is a tea drinker's dream. While you're there, sample a cup and a pastry. And if you're a novice, don't worry about looking silly trying to figure it all out; proprietors Austin Hodge and Zhu Ping couldn't be happier to answer all your questions and send you home with exactly what you're looking for.
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