Word: tropical
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...Echinacea’s correlation with inexplicable health by no means implied causation, right? Thus, when the big bottle of meanies ran out, I neglected to replace it—and promptly contracted some sort of month-long affliction the likes of which I thought only occurred in dense tropical jungles below the Tropic of Cancer...
Treating dogs with anti-depressants is actually a booming business. Recently the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has started approving psycho-tropic drugs for the treatment of a host of mental diseases in dogs, from separation anxiety to aggression. The market for dogs with separation anxiety (defined as going crazy and tearing up couches when master is away at work) is estimated at 14 percent (Sadie included) of the total dog population, or about seven million dogs...
DIED. CHARLES REMBAR, 85, lawyer, writer; in the Bronx, N.Y. Rembar defended the publishers of Lady Chatterley's Lover, Tropic of Cancer and other controversial works against obscenity laws, most famously--and successfully--in the landmark Fanny Hill Supreme Court case of 1965. He received a George Polk Memorial Award in journalism for his book The End of Obscenity in 1969, the same year his cousin Norman Mailer also won a prize...
...between the album and the book," says Mya, "one being that you should make decisions based on how you feel, not on other things around you." If Mya really wants to continue on her journey of personal and artistic growth, here's a title suggestion for her next CD: Tropic of Capricorn. But one bit of advice: she may want to read it first...
DIED. ELMER GERTZ, 93, crusading Chicago civil rights attorney who helped Nathan Leopold, accused with Richard Loeb of young Bobby Franks' murder in 1924's "Crime of the Century," win parole in 1958; defended Henry Miller's explicit novel Tropic of Cancer against censorship; and overturned the murder conviction of Lee Harvey Oswald's killer, Jack Ruby; of pneumonia; in Chicago...