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...effects may include weight gain. PHYTOESTROGENS Estrogen-like compounds in soy may reduce symptoms, but studies are equivocal and product quality has not been standardized. BOTANICALS AND HERBS Black cohosh is moderately effective in relieving many symptoms (but not hot flashes). Like other botanicals, such as red-clover leaf, dong quai and ginseng root, it needs more research. - By Coco Masters
Black cohosh is moderately effective in relieving many symptoms (but not hot flashes). Like other botanicals, such as red-clover leaf, dong quai and ginseng root, it needs more research. --By Coco Masters
...during China's Cultural Revolution, Pingsha Dong, originally from Dalian, was transplanted for re-education into the hinterland, where the schools reduced the curriculum to communist rote. Before he left, his father told him that no matter what the risk, "you need to learn." So, after 16 hours in the field each day, Dong stole away at night with a kerosene lamp to pore over two math and physics books his father had salvaged for him. Eventually the authorities caught on to Dong's reading, but since he disguised his books to resemble Mao's Little Red Book, they praised...
...North Korea, bright floodlights shine all night on the monuments to Kim Jong Il and his family. But the rest of the energy-starved country is lucky to get a few hours of juice a day. So when South Korean Minister of Unification Chung Dong Young traveled to Pyongyang last month to outline a secret offer of massive energy aid, he seemed to have caught the Dear Leader's attention. If Kim scraps his nuclear weapons program, Chung told him, South Korea will provide 2 million kilowatts of electricity each year, nearly doubling the North's power supply. Making details...
...interview with TIME, Vietnamese Premier Pham Van Dong [WORLD, Nov. 11] blames the U.S. for all the problems created by the Communists. Ten years after the North conquered South Viet Nam, its economy is bankrupt, and its people are deprived of human rights. South Viet Nam did need the U.S. to help in its fight against the Communists, and Viet Nam still needs the U.S. As a condition for normalizing relations, which Pham Van Dong seeks, the U.S. should insist that the Communists return human rights to the Vietnamese people. Nuong Van Trinh Martinez, Ga. Flag Waving...