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...Christian revenge: a mock-up of the head of Longinus, one of the centurions who guarded Christ, is paraded through the streets. Or try spooky Siquijor Island, south of Cebu. Long a center for paganism and magic, the island attracts numerous witches on Good Friday who gather to brew and administer love potions, supposedly most potent on the godless day of Christ's death...
...every Starbucks, there are numerous bagel chains and brew pubs that went public, expanded too fast and fizzled. And stockholders could get indigestion next month when company insiders become free to dump 7.4 million shares that they have held since last year's ipo into a market that currently trades just 5.75 million Krispy Kreme shares. When insiders announced a previous sale in January, the stock fell 11%. But unless Krispy Kreme announces a plan to sell e-doughnuts, it stands to humble the tech stocks for the rest of the year...
...central and southern coastal plain house about 8 million pigs - the majority contracted to Smithfield - and their waste is kept in open-air lagoons, where it decomposes anaerobically before being sprayed onto fields. Those fields, the lawsuits charge, can't absorb the untreated waste - an alleged "witch's brew of nearly 400 volatile organic compounds and toxic poisons" - fast enough. Some of it rains down or seeps into waterways, where it causes algal blooms, fish kills and shellfish diseases, according to the suit...
...companies. Last year's new goodies included Tibet Grass brand ginseng-berry juice, a sorghum liquor called Tibet Fragrant Spring and Tibetan Highland barley wine. "Chinese like our drink because of Tibet's mysterious feelings," says Zai Shudong, who bought ads on national TV for his company's sorghum brew. Trendies in Shanghai can shop for Tibetan jewelry at boutiques just off the glitziest commercial street. At the Traditional Tibetan Medicine Hospital in Beijing, director Renwang Ciren spent a recent morning tending to the ailments of six air-force officers. He says 90% of his patients are Chinese, a vast...
...vaccine developed at Memorial Sloan-Kettering binds a protein from a mollusk called a limpet to seven different types of sugars and a protein fragment found only on cancer cells. The vaccine is then mixed with saponin, a soaplike derivative from a South American tree. This witch's brew serves to annoy the immune system, revving it up enough to attack cancer cells that are carrying the same sugars and protein fragment...