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...Breakfast has taken on an all new meaning for me. I think I am actually growing to like having Miso soup and rice every morning. It's quite a change from Special K and milk...
...Chinese patients stretched out on operating tables, their bodies bristling, porcupine-like, with needles, used to be the fare of National Geographic or colorful travel brochures. Acupuncture--the Oriental practice of piercing the flesh with steel needles to relieve illness--was long as exotic to Westerners as snake soup or the I ching. The mere mention of it to a Western physician would invite a stern, finger-wagging lecture on the perils of quackery...
...Cain and Abel sniffled, sneezed and complained of stuffy noses. In fact, rhinovirus, above, with its more than 100 identified strains, has probably been around even longer than humans. With age comes wisdom, which in the case of this virus means the ability to resist every concoction--from chicken soup to zinc lozenges--people throw at it. So far, modern medicine has met its match. Still the best treatment: aspirin, rest and lots of fluids...
Many headed for the Greenhouse or the subterranean Loker Commons, using Crimson Cash for pizza, tacos, coffee and vegetable soup...
...rather separate wars, connected by the thuggish intentions of Saddam Hussein. War A, let's call it, is a nasty struggle for autonomy, power, money and influence among the fractious Kurds in northern Iraq and the sometime-friend, sometime-foe regional powers of Iraq, Iran and Turkey. An alphabet soup of rival Kurds locked in a cynical game of cooperation and betrayal want independence but fight each other more ferociously than anyone else. As the overseer of the Kurd safe haven established after the 1991 Gulf War, the U.S. is only tangentially involved, its main interest in the messy struggle...