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LOOKING FORWARD
JANUARY 15-22, 2014 VOL.19 NO.20
HEALTH & FITNESS It’s mid-January, and this issue is timed to bolster your
commitments to eat less, exercise more, quit smoking, drinking, etc. But there’s more to life than resolutions. Charles Eichacker goes out for Recess — a new enterprise that gets some Burlington employees playing games at lunchtime. Ken Picard pursues the safe-sex beat with a report on Sustain condoms, while Sarah Tuff interviews some black-belt babes who teach women self-defense, and Lindsay J. Westley tries to keep up with one-legged skier Vasu Sojitra. Alice Levitt tells us about professional foodies — including herself — who’ve found ways to drop pounds; and Corin Hirsch reports on the alarming rise of food allergies and sensitivities — and how chefs are coping.
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BY MARK DAVIS
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UVM Slavery Study Challenges Vermont’s Abolitionist Rep Twenty-five Years and 6,300 People Later: A Vermont Refugee Report
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Chittenden County Loses a Beloved Legislator: Sen. Sally Fox, 1951-2014
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ARTS NEWS
Conductor, Composer, Activist: VSO Chorus Leader Robert De Cormier Steps Down
BY AMY LILLY
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Short Takes on Film: Cinema Sincérité
BY ETHAN DE SEIFE
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Words Up BY MARGOT HARRISON
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Fit Foodies
Food: Vermont culinary professionals are slimming down BY ALICE LEVITT
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Sensitivity Siege
Food: How restaurants cope with the surging trend of food allergies and intolerances BY CORIN HIRSCH
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‘I Claim the Blues’
Music: Blues man Guy Davis talks about music, acting and his formative years in Vermont BY DAN BOLLES
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Does VT really have a drug ‘crisis’? PAGE 14
HEALTH AND FITNESS ISSUE
MARTIAL MOXIE
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VT women learn self-defense
MIDDAY PLAY
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Grown-ups rediscover Recess
FROM FAT TO FIT
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Professional foodies slim down
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An Illegal, Iranian-Directed Film That Isn’t a Film Makes Its Way to Middlebury
Lunchtime Recess
Health & Fitness: A new start-up invites Burlington-area professionals out to play
COLUMNS + REVIEWS
BY CHARLES EICHACKER
BY MARGOT HARRISON
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About Face
Health & Fitness: A Burlington company wants men to get the message about natural skin care BY CHARLES EICHACKER
BY PAUL HEINTZ
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Singular Sensation
Health & Fitness: One Vermont skier glides down the mountain with the best of ’em — on one leg BY LINDSAY J. WESTLEY
BY KEVIN J. KELLEY
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Health & Fitness: A nonprofit group of black belts arms Vermont women with self-defense skills BY SARAH TUFF
BY KEVIN J. KELLEY
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Kick Back
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