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...found in the Herbal Encyclopedia, a dictionary of traditional Chinese medicine compiled some four centuries ago that lists 461 animals with organs that purportedly have curative powers. They include the rapidly vanishing tiger and the unfortunate pangolin. According to the dictionary, pangolin scales can be "used to cure tumefaction [swelling], promote blood circulation and help breast-feeding mothers produce milk." If he wanted a more up-to-date answer, Jema'ah could also have asked Wei Hong, a Guangdong native in his mid-30s who developed a taste for pangolin meat when his father bought some 20 years...
...gooey black jelly made from the ground-up shell of the GOLDEN COIN TURTLE, found in Southeast and East Asia, is prized in China as a purported cure for cancer and kidney failure...
Although it is unclear why we break down into concentrations according to physical appearance, be warned: even if some imaginative course shopping has convinced you that you are in the wrong department, no concentration switch is a cure for frumpiness. As I ultimately realize every semester, even this shopping week will conclude with the wisdom that we are who we are, and that my past decisions, though perhaps unglamorous, were judicious. In a few weeks, I know the pile of useless syllabi in the corner of our desks will be the only reminder of the lives we might have...
...what's the White House plan? There really isn't much of one. If anything, there's a certain sense of fatalism among Bush staffers, a belief that the difficult moments in Iraq just have to be toughed out and that there is no ready cure at hand other than to make the case to stay the course as he did last week when he addressed National Guard troops in Idaho. As for the president himself, Bush is hyperresolute about the situation in Iraq according to advisers. "One of the things that's real consistent about this President is that...
...heavily subsidized exporters in First World countries. It may seem like a leap to link images of starving children to world trade, but one of the most effective things concerned citizens in the West can do is lobby their governments to drop agriculture subsidies. It's not going to cure all of Africa's problems, but it would be a big step in the right direction. --By Simon Robinson