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...morning enigma of why cereal clings to the sides of a bowl of milk has finally been explained in a manner comprehensible to the average student...

Author: By Irene F. Yuan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Scientists Share Secret To ‘Cereal Clumps’ | 9/27/2005 | See Source »

...medicine compiled some four centuries ago that lists 461 animals with organs that purportedly have curative powers. They include the rapidly vanishing tiger and the unfortunate pangolin. According to the dictionary, pangolin scales can be "used to cure tumefaction [swelling], promote blood circulation and help breast-feeding mothers produce milk." If he wanted a more up-to-date answer, Jema'ah could also have asked Wei Hong, a Guangdong native in his mid-30s who developed a taste for pangolin meat when his father bought some 20 years ago in the hope of curing a skin disease. With the meat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eating Disorder | 9/26/2005 | See Source »

...winds stripped the limbs off his backyard’s trees and wrenched out others from their roots. Later he wandered up and down New Orleans’ Magazine Street with a laundry basket, at last encountering a convenience store where a man sold him coffee and canned milk, letting in just one customer at a time before closing shop forever...

Author: By April H.N. Yee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: After Storm, An Uncertain Calm | 9/12/2005 | See Source »

Farmer brought his laundry basket full of coffee and canned milk back to his Napoleon Avenue home, which had no form of communication except a land telephone. The line would determine his family’s survival when his aunt called, telling them that floodwaters were fast rising on the northern side of the city. Farmer drove out at 1 a.m. Wednesday morning...

Author: By April H.N. Yee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: After Storm, An Uncertain Calm | 9/12/2005 | See Source »

...that right and wrong had jumped their tracks. For all the scorching images of armed thugs making off with sneakers and wide-screen TVs, the larger reality wasn't as simple as the President's call for "zero tolerance"of looting. Was it wrong to take a bottle of milk from a store when your baby was sobbing and there was no way to pay for it if you tried? When cans of food are scattered in the debris, does taking them amount to theft, or salvage? At one point, police with guns drawn escorted Dr. Henderson through a Walgreens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Aftermath | 9/4/2005 | See Source »

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