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...potion or palliative. Some herpetics regularly consume buttermilk, vitamins, herbs or lysine, an amino acid that is said to help retard viral growth. Some avoid eating chocolate, nuts and other foods containing arginine, another amino acid that some specialists think encourages viruses. Other patients apply seaweed, earwax, snake venom, peanut butter, watermelon, ether, baking soda, bleach, yogurt compresses, carburetor fluid or Instant Ocean, an aquarium product that they lace into their bath water. None of these home remedies is a cure, but sufferers keep experimenting. Says Dr. John Grossman of Washington, D.C.: "Everything from the full moon to poultices...
...titular head (Moderator) of the Church of Scotland-the first time that a Pope had met Scotland's leading Protestant on Scottish soil. The meeting occurred in the shadow of the stern gaze of a statue of 16th century Calvinist Reformer John Knox, who once said, "The venom and malice of Satan reigneth in all Papists." Mclntyre seemed unintimidated by the setting: "If you are concerned at all for the unity of the church in Scotland, where we have a very bad record," he said, "it is a very significant event." The Pope's visit, Mclntyre added, would...
...back, in fact, to man's Neanderthal predecessors. Today, arthritis inflames the joints of 10% of the world's population, including one out of seven Americans. There are dozens of helpful drugs on the market, as well as countless quack remedies ranging from copper bracelets to snake venom. Aspirin, however, remains the treatment of choice. The trouble is that in order to suppress inflammation as well as pain, aspirin often must be taken in megadoses-15 to 20 tablets a day. At such levels, it can cause stomach distress, ulcers and hemorrhaging. And so, spurred by a market...
...indefatigable booster, FDR spent much of his editorial venom on those men who lounged about their rooms, not attending practice to cheer on the football team, not coming out for various squads, and not listening to speeches. One of his reading period papers featured this appeal: "It seems a pity that more men do not realize the pleasures and benefits to be had from membership in one of the various musical organizations in the University. The Freshman Glee, Banjo and Mandolin clubs, which practice through the winter and give three or four concerts shortly after the spring recess, offer...
Jake is writing a book about "the moral and ethical disintegration of the American dream," and Grownups seems shackled to that thesis. For few explicable reasons, Jake and Louise crush each other in a rockslide of a marital spat that rivals the venom but not the wit of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?ln an explosive but faintly ludicrous finale, all the family pieties are blasted and blasphemed...