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Women the world over may find a miracle brewing in a place called Uruka Amahuaja, a cluster of huts in the Venezuelan rain forest, reachable only by dugout canoe. Biologist Ramiro Royero has set up a computerized field office there to collect data on a plant still unknown to the outside world: a shrub whose poinsettia-like leaves are steeped as a medicinal tea by the Piaroa tribe to relieve menstrual cramps--without the caffeine jitters and other side effects caused by most of today's commercial remedies...
...Suslov, a joking reference to Mikhail Suslov, notorious chief ideologist of the Soviet Communist Party. The new product strategy involved grouping all Nestle products under six global brands, including Nescafe, Nestea and Nestle itself. Once it was launched, Brabeck grew restless and asked to be sent back into the field. Maucher was then in his mid-60s and close to retirement. Brabeck technically reported to the chief operating officer, who was widely expected to become the new CEO. Maucher asked Brabeck bluntly, "What is it you truly want?" Brabeck's reply: "The chair you're sitting in." Several months later...
...with 19 points, and junior guard Emily Tay paced the team with six assists, also chipping in 14 points. Both players were 6-for-6 from the line. After the sluggish first-half shooting, the Dukes got hot in the final 20 minutes, shooting nearly 56 percent from the field after the intermission. “They could hit shots that no one in the country could stop,” Delaney-Smith said. “It wasn’t a case of us being poor on defense.” Delaney-Smith noted that James Madison also...
...idea was born because so many fans left instructions before they died to have their ashes scattered on the playing field of La Bombonera (the "candy box," as the Boca football stadium in the city of Buenos Aires is known)," says Boca press officer Laura Acosta. Inspiration also came from a widespread custom of club fans of adorning the gravesites of relatives in other cemeteries with Boca-inspired decorations...
...Fans who buy plots at prices ranging from $1,000 to $4,000 have been promised that grass from La Bombonera's playing field will be replanted at the cemetery. "At least once in their lifetime, Boca fans have to visit the Boca stadium," said Father Jose Luis Monzon when he blessed the Boca cemetery at the opening ceremony last year. "Now they have a place here, and have of course, another in heaven...