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Morris is not alone in his strong and early criticism of the governor of Fruit and Nut Land. The New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis '48, abroad at home in Berkeley, California, a while back, took advantage of the opportunity to interview Brown, and he was not impressed. In a series of columns that were a far cry from his usual philosophical, reflective, issue-oriented pieces, Lewis described his interviews with Brown, whose undisciplined, if provocative thinking reminded him of the musings of a precocious graduate student. Lewis is too kind to graduate students...
Schultes said marijuana is used for many different purposes in places where it is not illegal. In addition to its narcotic attributes, it is used to produce industrial oil in Russia, as a tranquilizer in Germany, as a source of hemp fiber, and as edible fruit in times of famine...
...Does the fruit extract really help back pain...
...papaya is a wondrous fruit-abundant, tasty and nutritious. A papaya extract is the active ingredient in supermarket meat tenderizers, and the papaya has long been used by traditional healers to treat illnesses ranging from hepatitis to gonorrhea. Now an extract from the fruit has become the center of a growing medical controversy. Despite doubts expressed by many U.S. experts, hundreds of U.S. citizens are traveling to Canada to be treated with a papaya enzyme for what is commonly called a slipped disc...
President Laurent Boix-Vives (pronounced Bwah-veeve), now 51, started two ski-lift companies in his home region of Savoie in 1951, after serving an apprenticeship in his father's fruit and vegetable business. In 1955 he learned from a friend, Emile Allais, a former world downhill and slalom champion, of a nearly bankrupt firm, Societe Rossignol, that produced wooden spools for the textile trade and wooden skis on the side. Boix-Vives borrowed $50,000, bought the firm and laid off everyone but 27 ski makers, creating a lean, one-product shop. Allais soon devised a metal...