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...high school dropout, Eric spent a great deal of time in the Nantahala National Forest and, according to a CNN report, learned to hunt and fish, studied herbal medicine and fashioned himself as an army survivalist. For cash, he allegedly became a backwoods pot farmer and enjoyed the fruits of his work, getting stoned and watching Cheech & Chong movies. He joined the Army in 1987 and was discharged 18 months later; investigators think he may have learned about firearms and explosives while stationed in Fort Benning, Ga. Two months before the Olympics bombing in Atlanta, he sold his childhood home...
Uday tried everything to repair himself. In the ruins of the palace in which he last lived are thousands of packets of sterile acupuncture needles, an assortment of Chinese herbal medicines imported from Argentina and drawers full of multivitamins and sleeping pills. In the winter of 2002, says a butler, Uday demanded that his aides bring him a woman who had just had a baby. When the mother, in her 20s, with golden-brown hair and a henna-colored skirt and matching shirt, arrived, Uday sucked her nipples for what he believed would be vitamin-rich milk...
Finally, a word about the different types of tea. There is only one true tea plant, Camellia sinensis. (Herbal teas are made from other plants.) The main varieties--black, green and oolong--reflect different processing techniques. If tea is in fact an immune booster, you would expect all three varieties to be equally effective since they are all broken down by the body into molecules that mimic bacterial proteins. There are differences, however, in the types and amounts of disease-preventing antioxidants various teas contain. Green tea has more of the chemically simpler antioxidants called catechins, whereas black tea contains...
...often have little more than an elementary-school education. Wei Guo, a second-generation barefoot doctor in the village of Shuiqu, says he knows what to do if he encounters any SARS cases. He will prescribe a popular traditional remedy called banlangen, a dose of antibiotics and perhaps an herbal tonic that promotes a patient's yin to counter an imbalance of yang. With much of the nation depending on such ill-informed care, the killer virus looks set to spread even further into China's underdeveloped interior...
...specialty teas, chocolates and bottled drinks. The grassy-tasting plant has been added to two varieties of SmartChocolate bars, a new raspberry flavor of Vitaminwater called Determination, and Zygo, a peach-infused vodka. Enthusiasts claim the plant's antioxidants help fight cancer, though like all herbal products, yerba mate hasn't been tested by the FDA. --By Rebecca Winters