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Thousands of parents and school officials are calling county health offices to report that the standard arsenal of commercial lice-killing products seems to be having little effect. In Iowa, Virginia and Oklahoma, newspaper articles have discussed the merits of such home remedies as olive oil and vinegar. In Rhode Island, Idaho and Florida, parents are trading tips on smearing their kids' hair with vaseline, steam cleaning the carpets and storing teddy bears in the refrigerator. "It's creating a lot of havoc," says Wayne Kramer, the Nebraska state medical entomologist, who has received 125 calls since the beginning...
Autumn also means less daylight. Skin just doesn't have that bronzed, sun-kissed look about it any more. Remedies include Kiss My Face honey and calendula moisturizer ($3.99), Apple Cider Vinegar Toner ($4.75) and even Ocean Potion Sea Clay Mud Pack ($9.10) for the tired complexion. To complete the look with white teeth, buy Tom's of Maine natural baking soda toothpaste ($3.39). Finally, if Citystep didn't help you catch that hottie from section, another option is Ecco Bella's Venetian Night Erotic Aromatherapy...
There's a comforting, Meet Me in St. Louis sweetness in the way this clan faces its small crises. But Uhry adds vinegar in the form of a sharply observed portrait of upper-middle-class Jews in the pre-World War II South. Theirs was a tricky dance of assimilation and accommodation, in which older families, like Lala's, scorned newer immigrants, represented by the kid from Brooklyn who has just gone to work for the family business. Uhry juggles a lot of elements with no evident strain: creating a believable family that seems both quirky and emblematic; exploring issues...
...douching, and it has been shown to increase the risk of serious pelvic infections. The anti-fertility effects, the study found, remain in force even if a would-be mother douches many days before or after having sex. It also doesn't matter whether women use commercial douches, mix vinegar and water or use plain water. But as TIME's Janice Horowitz cautions: "This doesn't mean that women should consider douching as their method of birth control. It's nowhere close to 100 percent effective." Jenifer Mattos
MADISON, Wisconsin: Scientists have found ordinary vinegar in a stellar cloud 25,000 light years from earth, a discovery that may help explain the formation of life. Radio astronomers from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, found faint traces of vinegar, or acetic acid, in a cloud of gas and dust named Sagittarius B2 North. Ammonia was discovered in interstellar space more than 25 years ago, which makes it plausible, according to one of the scientists on the Illinois team, that molecules of ammonia and acetic acid linked up to form basic amino acid. Amino acids, which are the basic...