Word: herbe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only the West that has scorned traditional learning. When communist China imposed tight control over Tibet in 1959, the aggressors tried to eradicate the captive country's culture. In particular, the communists denounced Tibetan medicine as feudal superstition, and the number of doctors practicing the 2,000-year-old, herb-based discipline shrank from thousands to 500. But since the Chinese began to relent on this issue in recent years, Tibetans have returned to their traditional medicines, which they often find more effective and less harsh than Western drugs...
...occasion for a predictable batch of racial wisecracks. ("I am only reluctantly conforming to federal guidelines," sniffs the headmaster to his token hire. "Shoeshine?" offers the teacher.) NBC's Pacific Station pairs a hard-boiled police detective (Robert Guillaume) with a flaky new partner (Richard Libertini), who brews herb tea and spouts New Age psychobabble. Only the two stars' professionalism keeps this from being a match made in hell...
...settle for plain when you can get it flavored? Enid Stettner's Wild Thymes, of Medussa, N.Y., bottles 25 different kinds of herb and fruit vinegars, including such exotica as Opal basil, hot pepper and blueberry. (The labels, happily, offer some clues on culinary...
...Herb-roasted turkey with home-made stuffing...
...Broiled Herb Chicken...