Word: vera
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...answered the sartorial prayers of American women by creating exactly what she knew they needed. In 1955, she told TIME, "I've always designed things I needed myself. It just turns out that other people need them too." Like the creations of many female designers--Miuccia Prada, Donna Karan, Vera Wang--McCardell's designs were a complete expression of herself...
...dangerous illness that in itself can lead to suicide, and they insist that the benefits of these drugs outweigh the risks. But drug firms also refuse to release all their research--some of which tends to undercut their claims. "It's a real shell game here," says Vera Sharav, president of the Alliance for Human Research Protection, an advocacy group...
Pforzheimer House: Melissa A. Eccleston, Vera S. Makarov, Rebecca K. McKeown, David R. Nierrenberg and Joshua J. Vandiver...
...fishes around his barn's medicine cabinet, pulling out vitamin pills and aspirins the size of a man's thumb. There's a "microbial supplement," to help digestion, and Uddermint, a cream made with peppermint oil for soothing sore teats. At his feet is a jug of aloe-vera juice, which he'll shoot down a cow's throat to help relieve stress. That morning he whipped up a brew of rice water, garlic, salt and beef bouillon to treat a calf with diarrhea. To go organic, he says, "you have to be open-minded. Fear is what holds...
STACY SCHIFF, who won the Pulitzer Prize for her biography Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), is writing a book about Franklin's years in Paris