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...that one for a long time. They know that 65 million years ago, a large object, five or six miles across, blasted a 120-mile-wide crater at the tip of what today is Mexico's Yucatan peninsula. They also know that the impact, or more accurately, the worldwide, sunlight-blocking shroud of dust it kicked up, wiped out some 70% of the earth's plant and animal species--including the dinosaurs. But what, precisely, was the object that sealed their fate...
Some unwary consumers, though, have been getting hurt. Geoffrey Bove, a pain researcher at Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess hospital, recalls a woman whose skin became hypersensitive when she stepped into sunlight. Even a mild breeze triggered a painful reaction. Bove traced the cause to the St. John's wort that the woman was taking to combat mild depression. When she switched to a prescription drug, the painful burning vanished...
...American Botanical Council in Austin, Texas, recently published in English. It tells which herbs have proved safe and beneficial but warns against side effects and other risks. It advises pregnant and nursing women not to take kava, for example, and notes that some people may become sensitive to sunlight when using St. John's wort. It approves standardized doses of ginkgo extract but rejects nonstandard preparations made from whole leaves as untested and potentially hazardous. At the same time, it turns thumbs down on folk remedies like nutmeg for upset stomachs, noting scant evidence that it works and warning that...
...Lake Hylia in the mythical land of Hyrule. Imagine being inside an animated Japanese wood-block print. The sun is going down (it really is--you can track it across the sky), causing colors to punch out and deepen. I'm fly-fishing in peerless blue water--yellow sunlight bounces off the surface--and fat lunkers lurk below. When one at last strikes at the red-feathered lure, lake-floor sediment swirls like a dust cloud...
Sorry to point this out. You're probably pausing right about now to wipe a tear from your Armani suit and thinking it's pretty much curtains for the counterculture. Maybe you're thinking that you were but a moment's sunlight fading in the grass, and epochs like the 1960s are rare in human history...