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...still very much a society in transition, a place where the National Buddhism Office in 2003 felt obliged to warn monks not to use mobile phones in public. Very Thai is a compendium of fast-disappearing folklore: fortune-tellers who divine omens from rat-bitten clothes; apothecaries who make herbal aphrodisiacs so strong that they "could make a monk leap over the temple wall in search of romance"; fetus worshipping, spirit channeling, and other not-in-front-of-the-tourists activities...
...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...
UNCOMMONGOODS.COM Heart-shaped vases, glass balloons, velvet herbal slippers and a high-heel cake server (don't ask) are among the many offbeat gifts you'll find here...
Eleta's tactics are instructive. Step One: P&G chose to focus its marketing dollars on just 12 of its 300 brands: Always feminine products; Bounty; Charmin toilet paper; Crest; Dawn dishwashing cleaner; Downy fabric softener; Gain and Tide laundry detergents; Herbal Essences, Head & Shoulders and Pantene shampoos; and Pampers. Why not, say, P&G's Iams pet-food line? Median household income for Hispanics is $33,000, compared with $48,000 for the non-Hispanic population; P&G's market research found that relative to the general population, Hispanics tended to spend less on their pets...
...closed on Saturdays for religious reasons. Then there was the time not long ago when Simon discovered that a firm Hain Celestial Group had just purchased had absolutely no workers' compensation insurance. And soon after Hain made its biggest acquisition ever, shelling out more than $300 million for herbal-tea pioneer Celestial Seasonings in 2000, Simon had to get used to the idea that employees there sometimes came to work in sandals and shorts...