Word: peppermint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sales of Prozac to the prepubescent--and for a child spiraling into depression, they probably shouldn't. Meanwhile, Prozac's manufacturer, Eli Lilly, is conducting clinical studies in the under-18 age group, and may have just the product for this booming new market: liquid Prozac flavored a tasty peppermint...
...press on farther east into the faded glory of Hollywood, which started everyone smoking in the first place. The Frolic Room, where the walls have emphysema, is smokeless. Traci Michaelz, a drummer with the Peppermint Creeps, goes outside to smoke and says, "This is all about control, dude." You notice that his green fingernail polish matches neither his feather boa nor his skirt, and you know things change only for the worse...
...salesperson recommended Echinacea Special Formula Tea with peppermint leaf, scintillating wild cherry bark and lemon grass (tangy!) for $3.99. An alternative is the Wellness Formula ($10.98) made of, among other things, garlic powder and ginseng. "It makes you sweat" explained the bespectacled assistant, "You sweat out all the toxins." Hmmm. Another option is the honey-based homeopathic cough syrup...
...completely satisfy Hillary, who says, "I'll go on to do something else that I find challenging and interesting." Last Friday, Hillary and her entourage hiked a slick, muddy trail outside the remote Panamanian village of Chica, where a dozen peasant women were waiting at their nursery of guavas, peppermint and poinsettias. On a dilapidated bamboo bench, Faustina Nunez told the First Lady in Spanish of the dream they had also harvested from the soil. "Our community could see we were a society of strong-willed women, and we were not going to step backward," Nunez said. For Hillary...
...continues to look relaxed and even jocular, until the jury comes in, and then his face goes blank. His only real confidant appears to be Jones. He had a birthday on April 23, when he turned 29; his lawyers gave him two flannel shirts and a box of Peppermint Patties. He spends most of his time in jail reading the piles of mail he receives. He also reads books. Last month it was W. Somerset Maugham's The Razor's Edge, and he is now finishing Man's Fate by Andre Malraux. A book about a young man's spiritual...