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...good for the sick? This is where the science gets scraggier--and in the absence of data, politics takes over. What we know is that healers have accumulated copious anecdotes on weed's powers over the past 4,700 years. Understanding Marijuana author Earleywine credits a (possibly mythical) Chinese emperor with introducing the plant as a treatment for gout around 2700 B.C. But the emperor also thought his pot potion would help memory, making him the first of many fans to aggrandize the drug's medical potential. The ancient Greek doc Galen even used the drug to treat flatulence...
...them, it turns out, can be laid at the feet of Eco's resourceful Baudolino, a 12th century adventurer with a gift for fabrications that settle into the historical record. A peasant's son, the young Baudolino is brought under the loving protection of Frederick, the Holy Roman Emperor known to history as Barbarossa. As a grown man, Baudolino persuades the Emperor to give up trying to subdue the restive city-states of Italy and to journey instead to the Far Eastern realm of Prester John, a mythical Christian King. After Frederick dies (history says he drowned...
...interview the next day, Edison was asked if either of his two sisters (eldest sister Olivia is a marketing manager in Hong Kong) wanted to be artists. He responded that Tricia did, and the media spread the news. Paparazzi started chasing her. Not long after, Albert Yeung, chairman of Emperor Entertainment Group (EEG) and arguably the most powerful man in Hong Kong's entertainment scene, offered Chen a recording and management contract while the two chatted backstage at one of Edison's concerts. Yeung is a longtime friend of Chen's dad and owns Music Plus, Edison's record label...
...When details leaked out before the scheduled Tuesday evening release of his preliminary proposals, those grumblings turned into a revolt. On Tuesday morning, Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) heavyweights Mitsuo Horiuchi, Taro Aso and Taku Yamasaki vowed to intervene. While Koizumi briefed the emperor at the Imperial Palace that evening, the three leaders and other LDP bosses confronted Takenaka behind closed doors in the Diet building. Takenaka left the meeting looking visibly pale. "This was poor leadership from Koizumi," says Mamoru Yamazaki, chief economist at Barclays Capital Management. "Takenaka was accused by the leading politicians of the Diet, and the Prime...
Dado is Korean for “way of tea” and the shop offers patrons plenty of ways to steep themselves in tea-knowledge. Except for water, tea rivals milk as the world’s most ancient beverage. Legend has it that Emperor Shen Nung (2727 BC) discovered tea when a fortuitous leaf fell into water that his servants were boiling for drinking. All of the different varieties of loose-leaf tea—green, oodong, black, pü ‘erh—come from a single plant, Camellia sinesnis. Each...