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DIED. ARTHUR CANTOR, 81, Broadway producer whose wife thought he was "nuts" for investing $2,000 in 1957 in a show called The Music Man and who championed the comic playwrights Paddy Chayefsky and Herb Gardner; in Manhattan. Cantor, a publicist before becoming a producer, hoisted signs for his marquees as humorous as the plays they pushed. One read, "'I laughed my head off'--Marie Antoinette...
...study, sponsored by Pfizer (maker of both the antidepressant heavyweight Zoloft and herbal supplements) and the National Institutes of Mental Health, included 200 patents who took either St. John's Wort or a placebo pill for eight weeks each. The patients who took the herb showed very little or no improvement in their depression - the same results as the patients taking the placebo...
...Cruz is still in the chair as the makeup artist puts on the finishing touches. Before the reporter leaves, he apologizes for pushing her on questions of romance. "Everyone who asks, they apologize," says Cruz dryly. Photographer Herb Ritts is waiting outside to take her picture and sell Ralph Lauren to unsuspecting mortals foolish enough to believe that evening wear can turn anyone into a Spanish enchantress. "She's very spirited and loves to move," says Ritts. "I took her picture out in the desert. I told her to take off running and that's when she felt most...
...base of the drug?ephedrine?was actually first synthesized in Asia: a team of Japanese scientists derived it from the Chinese mao herb in 1892. Amphetamine and methamphetamine are derived from this ephedrine base, or from pseudoephedra, an artificial alternative, in a hazardous process that involves heating and pressurizing solvents and other store-bought chemicals. While the refining can be volatile, it is not terribly complex, which means that meth labs are an ideal family business for industrious Asians, who set them up in converted bathrooms, farmhouses or even the family hearth. Unlike ecstasy, which requires sophisticated chemical and pharmaceutical...
...short quip, the humorous event or the milestone in the life of one individual that would have otherwise gone unnoticed. These are often the kernels of stories which don't deserve a fuller telling but are too interesting merely to leave out. Such columns are an art form, and Herb Caen, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist of this stripe at the San Francisco Chronicle, was a master. Caen, who died four years ago this month at the age of 80, wrote a columns with items held in a perfect balance. He shaped the image of Baghdad...