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...Best Markets: On Sunday mornings, the food-and-flower market on the Quai des Celestins, and the artists? and artisans? market across the Saône on the Quai Romain-Rolland...
...have become popular alternatives to standard HRT. Sales of supplements that contain soy isoflavones, a form of phytoestrogen, tripled from 1998 to 1999. Some women also take vitamin E for hot flashes, while others are turning to remedies based on such exotics as black cohosh, flaxseed, red clover, dong quai and wild...
...solid as a Provencal mountain, which he perceived to be a sort of midpoint between El Greco and Picasso. In the same way, his early dislike of Matisse didn't stop him from eventually buying one of the greatest and harshest of all Matisses, the Studio, Quai St.-Michel...
...preventive measures, as something distinct from potent pharmaceutical drugs that are prescribed only after disease strikes. "Doctors are getting more and more inaccessible," says Leda Jean Van Stedum, 45, a Denver secretary who was shopping in a Vitamin Cottage chain store for preparations of black cohosh and dong quai to head off premenstrual discomfort...
...enlistment in the Marine Corps. This, however, turned out to be a blessing in disguise, since he was posted to Quantico, Va., and while there was able regularly to visit Washington museums, especially the Phillips Collection. One painting there, in particular, got to him: Matisse's Studio, Quai St. Michel, 1916. Though Diebenkorn would continue to meditate on other works by Matisse (and Mondrian, and Cezanne, and Bonnard, and so on through a wide classical-modernist pantheon) for the rest of his working life, this particular Matisse, with its simultaneous inside-outside view, thrilled and inspired him: "I noticed...