Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hoopla over hypericum began in Germany, where Jarsin, not Prozac, is the No. 1 antidepressant. This isn't as surprising as it may sound. German physicians are far more willing than their American counterparts to recommend herbal medications to patients. And a string of studies by German scientists, many of them sponsored by Lichtwer, have built a tantalizing if tentative case for hypericum's effectiveness as a treatment for mild and moderate depression. The result: so many German psychiatrists and general practitioners now recommend hypericum preparations that sales have soared from $23 million in 1994 to $66 million last year...
Still, the German experience suggests that St. John's wort is relatively harmless. "Millions of people have taken, or are now taking, hypericum," observes Jerry Cott, a Maryland-based pharmacologist, "and none of the side effects reported have been anything like those we've seen with drugs like Prozac. That's kind of exciting." Indeed, just as aspirin (whose active ingredient was first isolated from the bark of the willow tree) has spurred the development of a new generation of anti-inflammatories, so hypericum may eventually stimulate the creation of safer, more powerful, antidepressant drugs...
...felt the exact seduction everyone says they feel when they're around him, and I wondered when it was coming," Travolta recalled. "Then he said he wanted to help me with the Scientology situation in Germany." Travolta is a strong adherent of Scientology, which is under attack from the German government. "[Clinton] said he had a roommate years ago who was a Scientologist and had really liked him, and respected his views on it. He said he felt we were given an unfair hand in that country, and that he wanted to fix it. That did it. It was like...
...graying of America also challenges traditional notions of retirement that once made a worker's 65th birthday a career ender. That milestone--decreed by German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck in the 1880s when the average life expectancy was just 45--typically came with a party and a pension, plus plenty of time for golf and the grandkids. But many seniors today are moving on to new careers, not only because they can use the money but also because they can and want to keep working...
...Empathize civilian-style along with Jimmy Stewart in 1966's Flight of the Phoenix. It's Lifeboat in the desert, or maybe a grim, post-war Gilligan's Island, with Stewart as an old-dog Skipper forced to yield to the "push-button world" and the ice-cold young German (the Professor?) who embodies it. You'll wince, maybe proudly, when Stewart tells us that "the little men with the slide rules and the computers are going to inherit the Earth." And then consider that this week, the whole thing could have been filmed off the coast of New Jersey...