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...studies conclude that the herbal extract butterbur may be effective in cutting the number and severity of migraine headaches in children and adults. Like other supplements, butterbur (an ancient treatment for plague) should be used with care...
...backfired, driving a 4-in. nail through the roof of his mouth and into his skull. Amazingly, Lawler didn't realize anything was amiss until six days later when he went to a dentist with what he thought was a nagging toothache. It took surgeons four hours to extract the nail, which had penetrated his brain. The uninsured Lawler is expected to make a full recovery but now must contend with the headache of a $100,000 medical bill...
...North. "The U.S. has toned down talk of regime change to regime transformation," says Baik. "Pyongyang wants to see if this translates into policy." A less benign dynamic may be at work as well. Pyongyang has a long history of threatening to walk out of talks in order to extract concessions?and cash?from its opponents. The tactic has worked in the past; both Beijing and Washington have provided "aid" at critical junctures, and Seoul paid Pyongyang at least $500 million to agree to a summit meeting in 2000. "They want people to come back and implore them" to rejoin...
...brave new world of cloned babies has yet to materialize, but each year scientists get closer to copying humans. South Korean scientists announced in February that with improved techniques they managed to get cloned embryos to survive long enough for them to extract the world's first cloned human stem cells. In theory, such cells could be used to create any of the body's more than 200 tissue types. While that possibility is still years away, the new techniques could someday be used to obtain replacement tissue for patients using their own cells--thus avoiding the need for donors...
These institutions, according to sociologist Loic Wacquant, have each handled “the task of defining, confining, and controlling African Americans,” but the mass incarceration society we live in differs significantly from slavery and segregation. Their purpose was to extract cheap labor from blacks while still maintaining enough social distance between races for whites to benefit materially and psychologically. Globalization, however, wreaked havoc on this pre-1960s American social order as manufacturing jobs (and social mobility) moved to the suburbs and then overseas. Pushed into benefit-deprived, unstable service economy jobs, or into chronic...