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...HONG KONG Jars of tonic ingredients - including dead snakes - line the shelves of the tiny but atmospheric She Wong Leung, tel: (852) 2578 8135. Tell the specialist your ailment and he'll concoct a remedy on the spot...
Measures like creating smoke-free buffer zones--so people don't have to walk through a cloud of smoke to get into and out of school buildings--have had limited success. "We have a 25-ft. smoke-free boundary around campus buildings," says Julee Stearns, health-promotion specialist at the University of Montana's Curry Health Center. "But what's 25 ft. to some people isn't necessarily 25 ft. to others." An all-out campus ban, says Stearns, removes the need for guesstimating. The university is considering such a rule, which could take effect as early as fall...
Exactly how zinc stops diarrhea is not entirely clear. Olivier Fontaine, a diarrhea specialist for the WHO, believes that since the mineral is an essential ingredient in about 300 enzymes, boosting zinc levels strengthens the body's immunity, thus preventing diarrhea from turning deadly. A single course apparently also staves off further bouts of diarrhea for about three months--long enough to see a community through the deadly rainy seasons. Contrast that with ORT, which is extremely effective in replacing fluids and nutrients but offers no quick end to the diarrhea itself...
...shrink, out of the service: it needed him. Faced with a wave of service members coming back from combat in anguish, the Pentagon has made the diagnosis and treatment of posttraumatic disorders a top priority. Every battalion, especially in combat zones, is now supposed to have a mental-health specialist. (Watch a slideshow of the psychic scars of Kashmir...
...exhibition, though there are plenty of them, goose-pimpled in the chilly air. It's the way that sex, the perennial tool for advertisers seeking to sell products, has been commoditized into a must-have range of products. Nowadays, keeping up with the Joneses might mean flaunting specialist furniture such as a ?2,500 ($4,130) Stretching Bed from Dungeon Equipment or a ?115 ($190) Funswing, which looks like a cross between a hammock and a baby bouncer and could be mistaken for a comfortable perch for watching TV if the brochure didn't deploy explicit photos to illustrate...