Word: tarrytown
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...mislead you. This was not an out-of-the-way excursion for me. For most of my childhood, I lived a mere pumpkin toss away from the woods that the Headless Horseman and other ghosts are rumored to have haunted. I passed through Sleepy Hollow and its brother town, Tarrytown, all the time. Its 7-11 and Baskin Robbins were perfect spots for midnight snacks. I ran cross-country races in some of the town's back woods. I even took my SAT's at Sleepy Hollow High School. But, through all those years, I was entirely unaware that...
...figured if what I needed was instruction in how to scare myself out of my wits, whom better to turn to than a group of impressionable youths that still believe in the boogieman? But as it turns out, it takes a lot more than a tour through Tarrytown to scare third graders...
...gotta eat, but what'll it be? Since Dad's a chef, the Baylis family of Tarrytown, N.Y., plans road trips around fun restaurants--for more on this delicious strategy, see Eat Your Way Across the U.S.A., by Jane and Michael Stern (Broadway Books; 1999). The Keenses, on the other hand, head for the salad bar at the nearest grocery store. Then there's the ham-sandwiches-in-the-cooler option. Whatever you choose, make sure there's plenty of it: in the words of one road hog, "If we ate as much at home as we eat on vacation...
...Make sure what you're taking is pure. Last May the FDA verified industry reports that certain shipments of ginseng were contaminated with high levels of a fungicide. Elaine Kang-Yum, a pharmacist at the Hudson Valley Poison Control Center in Tarrytown, N.Y., who tracks herbal medicines, says some imported Chinese remedies have been doped with Valium or other prescription drugs...
...week. The first double-blind study in the U.S. on the effects of ginkgo, researchers say, proved that an extract of ginkgo has a small but measurable effect on dementia. "Ginkgo is no miracle," says Dr. Pierre LeBars, a neurologist at the New York Institute for Medical Research in Tarrytown, N.Y., and the study's principal investigator. "But we have some patients who have stabilized for four years...