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...like the sound of weasel coffee? Before you answer, consider the alternative name for Trung Nguyen Caf?s signature blend: Weasel Poop Coffee. After all, the thriving Vietnamese brew traces its origin to rodent droppings...
...Nguyen franchise to reviving Ca Phe Chon. According to legend, the chon (weasel) would eat the choicest coffee beans, then digest the outer shells, leaving the innards to, um, emerge in long strings. Farmers collected the beans and roasted them?presumably after a thorough washing?to make a rich brew. While Vietnam isn't alone in making such coffee (Indonesia has beans predigested by civets), Vu has brought Ca Phe Chon back in a more sanitary incarnation. He processes the beans in enzymes that he says approximates a weasel stomach. True or not, Vietnamese love...
...direct it to target cancer cells. A vaccine developed at Memorial Sloan-Kettering binds a protein from a limpet to seven different types of sugars and a protein fragment found only on cancer cells, and saponin, a soap-like 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...
...addition to food and dancing, the day featured a raffle of items from several Harvard Square businesses, including gift certificates to Grafton Street, John Harvard's Brew House and Herrell's, a gift package from Origins and an assortment of CDs from...
What's going on? Is it something in the water? That's a possibility. Scientists think it may be linked to obesity, though they've also proposed a witches' brew of other explanations, from chemicals in the environment to hormones in cow's milk and beef. But the truth is that all anyone knows for certain is that the signs of sexual development in girls are appearing at ever younger ages. Among Caucasian girls today, 1 in every 7 starts to develop breasts or pubic hair by age 8. Among African Americans, for reasons nobody quite understands, the figure...