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...work the ISS eventually does, the lessons it yields will probably be less scientific than bureaucratic--lessons about how, and how not, to get a project like this done. "Most of the functions of the space station have disappeared," says Alex Roland, chairman of the department of history at Duke University and a former NASA historian. "NASA is mortgaging its future for the next 20 years...
...Varro Tyler has written some of the most comprehensive guides, including The Honest Herbal and Herbs of Choice (Haworth Press; $40-$50). For a more folksy but still informative survey, try James Duke's The Green Pharmacy (Rodale; $30). Hard-core herbalists can delve into the first English translation of The Complete German Commission E Monographs ($190), a 685-page scientific tome just published by the American Botanical Council. It will soon be joined by the American Pharmaceutical Association Practical Guide to Natural Medicines (William Morrow; $35) and a PDR for Herbal Medicines (Medical Economics...
...Duke was a famous Harvard football player," Sedgwick recalls. "I was seven years younger, [and] he was my hero...
...high school student at Phillips Exeter, Sedgwick saw his first Harvard-Yale game. His cousin, R.M. "Duke" Sedgwick '21, was left tackle on the team that won the Rose Bowl...
...Duke vs. Davidson (bkc), ESPN2...