Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...acquired a reputation for moral integrity, and as a result, he is flooded with benefit requests from politicians and causes. He remains proudly political, "a lefty like my pop," a genteel North Carolina physician who was an Adlai Stevenson Democrat and a strong advocate for socialized medicine. The doctor's son is appalled to think of the market as the answer to America's problems. It leads, he says, to "an armed-camp mentality...
...which groups of young women, inspired by the do-it-yourself aesthetic of punk, started fringy rock bands, fanzines and discussion groups that focused on issues relating to women (sexual abuse, lesbianism, female friendship and so on). The group's first two CDs, Sleater-Kinney (1995) and Call the Doctor (1996), received raves in the rock press as part of the general media hype about feminist rockers, but those albums were slight, tinny affairs that got by mostly on motion and emotion. They featured a few worthy songs, but the band was still discovering its power, looking for rock...
...marijuana study, combined with his botanical research, led Weil to a pivotal choice--one that would determine the direction of the rest of his life. After medical school, he decided, he would forgo the young doctor's traditional apprenticeship as a hospital intern and resident and instead devote his time to traveling through the forests and villages of South America, studying not the great engine of Western medicine but the gentle power of the curative herb. Weil spent more than three years in the field in Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and elsewhere, and when he returned...
What else? Oh, right. Buy flowers, says the good doctor. Our house is full of plants already--hanging, squatting, dying--but they don't count. Has to be cut flowers, which my wife bought the first week, saying, "I thought you might forget." So this week (which, as I said, is nearly over), I definitely have to get flowers. But what kind? Guys aren't comfortable buying flowers because the women at the florist wear an expression that says, "You must have done something really disgusting, or you wouldn't be here when it's not Mother's Day." More...
Make no mistake: this is a big business. Seventy-five years after the A.M.A. called the hype surrounding vitamins a "gigantic fraud," the drug companies are racing to keep up with their increasingly independent customers. Kaups' self-care began 30 years ago, when a doctor suggested vitamin B for her recurrent headaches. "It worked," she says, "but after I read up on it, I knew I could put something together better than what the pharmaceutical company could give...