But while the British real ale movement of the same era harked back to a bygone age, American brewers of the same era were associated from its outset with the west coast counterculture, according to Maureen Ogle, author of Ambitious Brew: The Story of American Beer.

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They also made their ideological pilgrimages through the chic ideological and spiritual shrines of the time: est, the New Age movement, etc.

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Despite the fraud exposed at the heart of the global warming movement, Western celebrity leaders remain ready to tax their countries into the pre-industrial age in order to mitigate the dangers of global warming.

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At first embraced by the New Age and environmental movement but almost totally ignored by the scientific community, the essential truth of the Gaia hypothesis -- that the Earth regulates itself -- has since been adopted by the scientific mainstream.

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By the age of 14, he was studying Chinese opera movement and paying for his first ballet lessons with money earned by writing. (He later published two novels.) The turning point came when Lin studied with modern dance pioneers Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham - influences that could be detected flitting through his early work with Cloud Gate.

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