Word: containers
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...instance, that an acupuncturist's needles stimulate nerve cells to release endorphins, powerful opiate-like substances that relieve pain. Homeopathic remedies have been found effective for influenza, headache and allergies in numerous medical studies conducted in Europe. Meanwhile, herbs used in Chinese and Indian medicine have been shown to contain some of the same active ingredients found in conventional drugs...
...arms to Iraq. He claims Robert McFarlane was simultaneously National Security Adviser and the top Israeli spy in Washington. He impressed one reporter who has dealt with him as a fabricator who nonetheless did have connections in Israeli intelligence. Some of his stories are unbelievable; some seem to contain a kernel of truth. The big question is which are which...
...recent times, with the onslaught of the Palestinian intifada and the increased tensions between Arabs and Jews, the submerged situation of the city might even recall the heart of an eternally smoldering volcano, whose eruptions are as unpredictable as they are frequent, and whose walls prove unable to contain the violence of the contrasts, the anguish of its center...
While McNiff gave the Crimson some difficulty in the early going, Harvard did contain him through much of the later stages of the contest. In fact, the Crimson now has the highest rated rush defense in the Ivies. Thus far, opponents have been averaging only 139 rushing yards per game...
...rough week for Italian saints. To start with, scientists in Milan announced that a mixture of iron chloride and calcium carbonate, which looks like dried blood, can duplicate a phenomenon that has long been regarded as the miracle of ST. JANUARIUS. A vial believed to contain blood from the 4th century priest is kept in Naples, where several times a year the contents spontaneously liquefy and then return to a powdery state. The researchers, who demonstrated the same phenomenon with the chemical compound, speculate that a chemist may have concocted a hoax. The next day, in Padua, four masked thieves...