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...Herb Kelleher, founder of Southwest Airlines, considered Neeleman such a threat that after buying him out, he forced his young rival to sign a five-year noncompete agreement in 1994. "David's a genius," Kelleher says of Neeleman. "There's no question about it." The hiatus gave Neeleman a lot of time to plan every last detail of his dream airline...
...vervain, spring larkspur, spiderwort, monkeyflower, dog violet, common butterwort, spurred butterfly, crown vetch, henbit, spotted Joe-Pye weed, gray beardtongue, spreading dogbane, live forever, steeplebush, crazyweed, woolly locoweed, hairy vetch, lady's thumb, common speedwell, field milkwort, Lyon's turtlehead, ragged robin, calypso, common burdock, spotted knapweed, hairy willow herb, purple saxifrage, red baneberry, slender glasswort, toadshade, climbing bittersweet, birdsfoot trefoil, moth mullein, smooth false foxglove, showy rattlebox, prince's plume, agrimony, squawroot, mouse-ear hawkweed, rattlesnake weed, coltsfoot, tickseed sunflower, Jerusalem artichoke, sneezeweed, swollen bladderwort, clammy ground cherry, purslane, muskflower, rough-fruited cinquefoil, climbing boneset...
Efficacious Herb...
Your article "St. John's What?" [MEDICINE, April 30] tells of the millions who take St. John's wort, most of them for mild depression or the occasional blues. The new study you wrote about included 200 subjects, all of whom suffered from "major depression." Perhaps before discounting the herb's effectiveness, researchers should target folks having mild depression. St. John's wort seems to work for me--but heck, I also occasionally take ginkgo biloba to increase mental agility and clear thinking! MEL DAVIS Addison, Texas
...Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. Richard Shelton, a psychiatrist at Vanderbilt University and the study's lead author, says flatly that he wouldn't recommend St. John's wort to any of his patients. As for the 30 or so earlier trials showing that the herb had some therapeutic value, he--like many other scientists--dismisses them as badly designed, inadequate or otherwise flawed...