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Four hours into our road trip, a few miles from a ferry that would free us from our car, a giant fly landed in the ointment. The turn-by-turn directions I had downloaded for free from Big Book had been, so far, flawless. But now the printout was advising that I detour to the south; all the traffic, however, was proceeding due east. What to do? Heed the computer's advice, or follow the herd? Stupidly, I hadn't packed an atlas or road map. "Ella pinched me!" someone shrieked in steerage. Tick-tick-tick. "Follow the traffic," hissed...
...while sampling about 100 plants each year. The company's first product, Provir, is an extract of plant material used to combat acute diarrhea in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. Currently in Phase 2 clinical trials, it could be on the market in as little as three years. A topical ointment for herpes infection and an oral antifungal agent are also in the pipeline...
...could, we would then chide her with the example of Christ himself. When a woman anointed his hair with precious ointment from an alabaster box, she was lectured by his disciples for not spending the money on the poor instead. Jesus' famous rebuke to his followers: "Ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always." And Mother would have nodded, recognizing our need to deliver the tributes, to shed the tears, to try to anoint her as a saint. But then she would point us to many of the people who had come...
...STEIN is no Einstein, but the Nixon speechwriter, Pepperdine University law professor and eye-ointment pitchman is willing to bet his salary he knows more than most folks. Stein will star in a new TV show on Comedy Central, Win Ben Stein's Money, where contestants vie for a share of his $5,000-a-show paycheck by beating him in a general-knowledge quiz. "I've been reading the almanac over and over," says Stein. "I know a lot already, but I hope none of my family is ever a contestant." (His father Herb was chairman of the Council...
There is something symbolic about the fact that the sky poured a pure, white ointment on Cambridge the day after many returned from the Caribbean, Mexico and other supposedly exotic locations. The snow may be functioning as a detergent for the soiled feeling one gets from Spring-Breaking down south...