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Women the world over may find a miracle brewing in a place called Uruka Amahuaja, a cluster of huts in the Venezuelan rain forest, reachable only by dugout canoe. Biologist Ramiro Royero has set up a computerized field office there to collect data on a plant still unknown to the outside world: a shrub whose poinsettia-like leaves are steeped as a medicinal tea by the Piaroa tribe to relieve menstrual cramps--without the caffeine jitters and other side effects caused by most of today's commercial remedies...
...volatile extremes leads him to write an incisive lyric in one verse and a terrible one the next. “Wish You Were Here” starts with the wonderfully evocative line “Cotton candy and a rotten mouth,” then devolves into boring rain imagery and whining: “It’s totally fucked up / I’m totally fucked up.” On the solid “Burning Photographs,” Adams finds another winner: “I used...
...Harvard researcher is devising a plan to take on two of the greatest threats to the Earth’s future—acid rain and global warming. Kurt Z. House, a research assistant in earth and planetary sciences, proposed a process known as electrochemical weathering, which increases the alkalinity—or basic pH level—of the Earth’s oceans to reduce the damage caused by acid rain and decrease carbon levels in the atmosphere. The natural ability of oceans to remove carbon from the air has suffered due to pollution-induced acid rain. House...
...Kenyan farmers are trying to hit back with a "Grown Under the Sun Campaign," using the label to remind shoppers in the West that the country's fruit, vegetables and flowers are produced with few inputs other than Kenya's plentiful rain and sunshine. Ngige says consumers need to have the whole supply chain not just one step. "To look just at air freight is short-sighted," she says...
You’d think that if you sent the Bulldogs’ workhorse tailback Mike McLeod out in the rain and mud with a broken toe, he might be slowed down. And you’d be right: last week in sloppy conditions against Brown, the junior record-breaker was limited to one touchdown. And 185 yards on 32 carries...