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...Weber might have guessed, there's a downside to the Harvard bureaucracy's new building. In their quest to create a museum piece campus, our favorite University administration forgot to make a place to park your bike. They put in one rack, but on Thursday afternoons when 'The Bark' turns into section central, you need more room than that. And to make matters worse, friendly Harvard bureaucrats are turning the bike battle into an moral match. Leave your bike locked any place but the over-flowing rack and you get a note siting some state code and imploring...
Samoan healers concoct poultices and infusions from the leaves, bark and roots of local plants, using them for conditions that range from high fever to appendicitis. Among them are root of 'Ago (Curcuma longa) for rashes, leaves of the kuava tree (Psidium guajava) for diarrhea, and the bark of vavae (Ceiba pentandra) for asthma. Virtually all the healers are women who learned their art from their mothers, who in turn learned it from their mothers. Now knowledge of the recipes and their administration, even the location of the plants in the forests, is endangered as more and more daughters forgo...
...that can trigger human diseases, then expose those enzymes to a plant's chemical compounds. If a plant extract blocks the action of a particular enzyme--say, one that promotes a skin inflammation--they know the plant has drug potential. By extracting specific chemicals from the leaves, roots or bark with a series of solvents and testing each sample individually, scientists can determine which of the plant's thousands of compounds actually blocks the enzyme...
...research provides a far more streamlined way of locating plants that have medical potential. "Indigenous people have been testing plants on people for thousands of years," says Cox. More important, healers may alert ethnobotanists to nuances that random collecting could miss. Take Homalanthus nutans, a rain-forest tree whose bark Samoans have used for centuries as a cure for hepatitis. Cox quickly found that he could not just casually go into the forest and gather the bark because 1) there are two varieties of the tree, and the bark of only one is effective, and 2) only trees...
...script by Lee's frequent collaborator James Schamus. When Janey joins Elena in her kitchen to help with the dishes, the hostess whispers a steely, "Don't touch them!" It is Elena's amusingly fierce marking of her turf; it is also a socially acceptable way for her to bark at her husband's mistress and uncork her hatred of her life...