Word: herbal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Author Beatrix Potter, Artist and Illustrator Sara Midda celebrates the English garden in delicate watercolors. In and Out of the Garden (Workman; 128 pages; $14.95) will give snowbound nature lovers and backyard farmers cause to revel in vividly rendered pears, potatoes and peas. Tendrils of painstakingly crafted calligraphy-herbal aphorisms from Solomon to Poet John Clare-curl through tiny landscapes. There are also illustrated guides to flowers, fragrances and remedies offered by the bewhiskered farmers and thick-waisted matrons who tend these jewel-like plots. As for the predatory animals, like a good gardener, Midda has banished them from...
...Soviet Union, where contraceptives are both unpopular and hard to obtain, the average woman has six abortions in her lifetime. In Kenya, where a man's wealth is often measured by the number of his children, the average woman bears eight children. In Mexico City, where herbal abortifacients are sold in markets, four out of five beds in the Woman's Hospital are filled by women suffering complications after illegal abortions. In Italy, where abortion has been legal since 1978, Pope John Paul II condemns even contraception, fueling fierce political debate...
More terrestrially, Chun spent an impoverished childhood as the son of an herbal medicine man. He finished in the top ten in his class at the national Military Academy, took special forces training in the U.S. and commanded a regiment of South Korea's White Horse Division during a year's stint in Viet Nam. Only last May he insisted: "I have no political ambitions." But his behind-the-scenes maneuvering indicated otherwise. "Chun's not the simple-minded soldier, as many abroad might think," a Western diplomat says...
...year.) Few connoisseurs of anything are competent to contest his claim that the best shoofly pie is made by Dutch Haven Amish Stuff Inc., in Soudersburg, Pa., or that the best dimensional paper sculptures are fashioned by an insomniac housewife in San Diego, Calif, or that the best herbal medicine man holds forth -between nonherbal snacks on Hostess Twinkies-in Glenwood...
...form attesting that he does not have a cold, a skin irritation or a history of seizures or blackouts. Only then is he led to a private cubicle to begin the treatment. At Manhattan's Tranquility Tanks, this involves an eight-point countdown that includes a shower (herbal soap and shampoo), entering the tank ("Have a wonderful float") and a cryptic sendoff: "Stay with your experience, come out easy and let the water drain off the back of your head...