Word: pollenation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what happened when President Nixon, relaxing at his Camp David, Md., retreat, snatched up his briefcase, dashed to his helicopter and zipped back to the White House. To make matters murkier, White House spokesmen offered the lamest excuses. Speculation mounted. Quite simply, the President was escaping from the pollen hanging heavy over Camp David. Indeed, one wonders at the effort to cover up the President's allergy." --June 26, 1972, the issue published the week before the Watergate break...
Recently, I was in an ice-cream parlor in San Francisco that served the sort of fresh-fruit drinks sometimes called smoothies, and I noticed that the add-ins you could get in your smoothie (most of them for an extra 50[cents]), were listed as follows: "spirulina, bee pollen, brewer's yeast, calcium, ginseng, lecithin, protein powder mix, vitamins & minerals, and wheat germ." In Kansas City, people would pay a lot more than 50[cents] to have any of those things removed from whatever they were eating and replaced with Betty Lucas' chicken batter...
...bewildering array of breakaway treatments, including chiropractic, colonic irrigation, meditation, homeopathy, naturopathy, hypnotherapy, music therapy, folk medicine, guided imagery and Shiatsu massage. More than 1,000 homeopathic medicines are sold over the counter, along with a bewildering variety of vitamins, minerals, herbal remedies, fat burners, passion promoters and bee pollen...
Without honeybees and some 200,000 other species of insects, birds and small mammals, plants would be in a terrible predicament. So would humans. These creatures are the world's pollinators, quietly nuzzling and probing flowers for nectar and in the process, transferring DNA-bearing pollen from stamen to stigma. Without their work we wouldn't have healthy fruit and vegetables or viable seeds. We depend on this free service for 90% of our staple crops...
...Thunderstorms, say scientists, can trigger ASTHMA attacks--even in people who have never had one. Water and wind gusts release asthma-triggering particles from pollen...