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...slow burn. My parents put me on the drug when I was eight. It was pretty much the doctor saying, "He's hyperactive," my parents agreeing and the doctor whipping out the prescription pad. For the next six years, my parents told me I was taking a vitamin supplement. I'm still paying for what this garbage did to my system--and I'm 38. I've seen true, medically hyperactive kids. I wasn't one of them. What kind of society is it in which so many of us take the easiest option and drug our children with...
There were ways to get to him. When ingenue Ann Rutherford asked for a supplement to her modest salary in the highly profitable Andy Hardy series, L.B. began his familiar ploy. Then Rutherford took out her little bank book, showed him her meager savings and said she had promised her mother a house. Mother was the magic word. L.B. embraced her, but chastely; down his cheeks came the obligatory tears; and Rutherford left with her raise...
Sarah Breedlove was born on a cotton plantation near Delta, La., in 1867. Orphaned at age 7, married at 14, widowed at 20, Breedlove earned a subsistence living as a laundress in St. Louis, Mo. Seeking to supplement her income--and cure her case of alopecia, or baldness, commonly suffered by black women at the time because of scalp diseases, poor diet and stress--Breedlove became an agent for Annie Turnbo Pope Malone's Poro Co., selling its "Wonderful Hair Grower." Realizing the potential of these products, Breedlove took her daughter and $1.50 in savings to Denver, married her third...
Wichs says Men's group activities supplement Hillel's social events, and the group's activities are open to both men and women...
...absorption of dietary cholesterol into the blood. But the FDA says Benecol's makers cannot advertise specific health benefits without proving them through the agency's rigorous testing process--one that many companies consider unnecessarily bureaucratic and expensive. That's why Johnson & Johnson designates Benecol as a nutritional supplement. Such products are exempt from most FDA regulations under...