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After six months of self-experimentation, Dan says he finally found a concoction that enabled him to kick his habit, but to test it further he became addicted to heroin--and found his brew cured him of that as well. It was a muddy-brown syrup, later named Heantos, made from the leaves, roots and stems of 13 plants and a splash of alcohol. After he announced his breakthrough in 1989, Dan was immediately besieged by addicts. Since then, he says, some 4,000 patients have been treated, and most of them have been cured...
Recognizing that the Old Order Amish and Mennonites (who suffer from a similar genetic disorder called maple syrup urine disease) could not reach major medical centers if their children became ill--particularly since the condition often deteriorates in a matter of hours--Morton and his wife Caroline decided to build a clinic in Lancaster County. Lacking government, university or foundation support, they applied for a second mortgage on their home in St. Davids, Pa., to raise money for lab equipment. Their chief need was for a mass spectrometer that, together with a gas chromatograph and a computer workstation, would provide...
...illness during his early visits to Lancaster County, Jacob and Naomi Stoltzfoos sold the Mortons, at half market value, 2 1/2 acres of land as a site for the clinic. Two Mennonite congregations contributed a liquid chromatograph for analyzing blood samples of children who might suffer from maple syrup urine disease...
...Coke discloses that a pair of garage scientists has duplicated its famous syrup and is selling the formula worldwide. Warren Buffett, proclaiming that the company is without intrinsic value, dumps his stake. Coke shares rise anyway as the company, one of the biggest in the major-stock indexes, benefits from the mindless buying of stock-index funds. The Dow is up 400 points...
...that tofu doesn't taste particularly good, Shandler breezily advises. "It's like flour. Flour is a useful ingredient. Nobody expects it to taste good." Just throw a little silken tofu into a blender, add a splash of vanilla extract, a sprinkling of cocoa powder, a dollop of maple syrup, and you'll see. "I truly love this food," she insists, and so, apparently, do her husband and kids...