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Nearby, sunlight streams from an opening in a thatch of trees onto Faziira Nakalama, a cook, as she proudly lists the ailments (her own and her neighbors') cured by the leaves and roots of the Pronus africana. "Decreased immunity, stomach pains, malaria... the forest is very important," Nakalama says...
...friendly nightspots and the difficulties of being gay in the military. The resulting 1990 book, Coming Out Under Fire, won Berube a MacArthur award, inspired a Peabody-winning documentary and is widely considered the definitive piece of scholarship on the subject. He was 61 and died of complications from stomach ulcers...
...precursor to the better known “Hood,” this gullible little girl doesn’t end up in the wolf’s gullet for good either. But upon being rescued by the huntsman, Red-Cap fills the wolf’s stomach with rocks. A short epilogue relates that she kills another wolf with a wicked look in his eye with another lethal dose of stones. Victory! 3. Cinderella – This classic is far from the Disney version that’s sweet enough to give you a toothache. The wicked step...
...terrorism trial that ended Thursday in Miami, Fla., you might walk out around the time the seven suspects take an oath to al-Qaeda in a warehouse. The scene would feel so contrived, such a low-budget mockumentary of itself, that you might not be able to stomach another second...
...knew a lot about "conscious sedation," that is, knocking patients out just enough to do short emergency procedures without pain or writhing - but also without stopping the patient's heart or lungs. (Emergency rooms are not operating rooms; sedation can be risky, and Sasha had a full stomach, another danger.) But Melissa was her usual cheerful, omnicompetent self: "Don't worry, we can fix up that arm right here. We'll just use a touch of atropine, a little Versed for the nightmares and then the best drug there is for this sort of thing - good old Special...