Word: herbe
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...Minnesota. In 1985 a surfer aptly named Tony Finn developed a hybrid between a water ski and a surfboard called the Skurfer. But that skiboard was so narrow and buoyant that only the most experienced skiers could work it. Before skiboarding sank like a stone, water-ski manufacturer Herb O'Brien came up with the Hyperlite, a carbon-graphite board of neutral buoyancy with large dimples on the bottom (phasers, to those in the know) that gave it a looser feel and made for softer landings from wake jumps. Skiboarders became wakeboarders, and the sport took...
Unusual flavorings are gaining popularity. When water smoking, creative barbecuers add wine or herb seasonings to the water for some extra zing. For more twists connoisseurs mix specialty hardwood chips with the charcoal: buttonwood from the Florida Keys, for example, gives meat and fish a woody flavor less sweet than mesquite. "It's like picking out a wine," says Scott Fine, editor of On the Grill magazine. Nor is barbecuing limited to meat, fish and chicken anymore. Bobby Flay, restaurant owner and host of Lifetime's The Main Ingredient, likes to put corn bread on the grill, as well...
...treat allergies? someone wants to know. There sure is, Weil answers on the Web. Try a few leaves from the stinging-nettle plant, generally sold freeze-dried and packed in capsules. Are there any natural sex enhancers available? someone else asks. Absolutely, Weil answers. Men can try the Indian herb ashwagandha, which literally translates as "smells like a horse" but may pay back in sexual vigor whatever price it exacts in aroma. Women might consider damiana, the dried leaf of a Mexican plant that has a reputation as an aphrodisiac...
...medical school, he decided, he would forgo the young doctor's traditional apprenticeship as a hospital intern and resident and instead devote his time to traveling through the forests and villages of South America, studying not the great engine of Western medicine but the gentle power of the curative herb. Weil spent more than three years in the field in Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and elsewhere, and when he returned to the U.S. in the mid-1970s, he decided that he would make his living teaching, writing and otherwise spreading the alternative-medicine word. Today that word has rewarded him well...
...just switch to a better brand of gin. But coffee? Can't do it. I interviewed Weil a few years ago and found him bright, overflowing with ideas and not at all dogmatic. So when he suggested I might deal with my low-level migraine attacks by taking an herb called feverfew and by giving up coffee, I was willing to try. The feverfew worked--it dilates blood vessels--but the coffee thing didn't. As Weil had warned it might, my head went into a mutinous sulk until, after about 10 days, I made a pot of coffee...