Word: herbals
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...treating hot flashes with a drug for seizures, it reminded me of a conversation my mother and I had a few months ago. For some reason we were talking about hormone-replacement therapy for menopausal women when out of the blue, she asked, "What do you think about those herbal supplements?" This was my mother's way of telling me that she was one of the 30 million American women going through the change of life, at least 60% of whom experience those inconvenient and unpredictable hormonal disruptions that can make a woman's body feel...
...family name, Sonnenschein, translates as Sunshine, and its bearers at first prosper in turn-of-the-20th-century Budapest, selling an herbal tonic with that cheerful word emblazoned on the bottles. But they are Jews in an endemically anti-Semitic society. By the end of Istvan Szabo's three-hour epic, which traces the family's decline through three historical epochs--the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Nazism and communism--the irony of his title is almost unbearable. There is little sunshine in Sunshine, only degradation...
...press its case, the herbal industry turned to Bush allies. Metabolife International--which makes Metabolife 356, the best-selling herbal diet product in America--hired a San Antonio law firm headed by some of Bush's closest political associates, including Jeff Wentworth, a powerful state senator. (In Texas it is legal for a sitting state senator to represent clients before a state agency.) Wentworth arranged a July 2, 1998, meeting between Metabolife president Michael Ellis and Archer. Ellis says he called for a "dialogue" with his industry in place of the tough regulatory stand--a position being quietly urged...
...partner Jonas. For his part, Wentworth told TIME, "I'm not aware of any coordinating of contributions to get a meeting with Dr. Archer." (Months later, after news reports that Ellis and Blevins had been convicted years earlier of drug-related offenses totally unconnected to their work in the herbal industry, the Bush campaign returned their donations...
...badges in backpacking and tracking. Dogs and their people work hard from morning to night, but they can also pursue less serious interests like painting lessons for the bow-wow set, games of musical chairs and an all-pooch band. Seminars teach emergency first aid and the use of herbal medicine for dogs...