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...likeliest someone, both men believed, was Linus Pauling. To a later generation, Pauling would be best known as an antiwar activist and the slightly batty advocate of vitamin C as the antidote to colds and cancer. But at mid-century he was the world's premier physical chemist, the man who had literally written the book on chemical bonds. A few months before Watson arrived, in fact, Pauling embarrassed the Cavendish by winning the race to figure out the structure of keratin, the protein that makes up hair and fingernails. (It was a long, complex corkscrew of atoms known...
...other than one's specialty. Second, the money raised from the cards, which go on sale this month at MAC cosmetics stores, will benefit the MAC AIDS Fund. And third, the cards all feature naked people. The cards above, from left, were designed by makeup artist Billy B., singer Vitamin C and artist Tyler Hayes...
...four-feet by four-feet, you can sit up cross-legged to type, curl in a ball to read, stick out your legs to stretch, or give up and take a nap spread-eagle on your stomach. There is a steady supply of natural sunlight for my pasty vitamin D-deficient skin, the occasional passersby, and a head-on view of a church steeple with a bird that I thought was fake for three days, until it flew away on Monday...
Norman Cousins would have got a kick out of this week's issue. He was the former editor of the Saturday Review who, when struck with a debilitating connective-tissue disorder, checked himself out of the hospital and into a hotel room, where he medicated himself with megadoses of vitamin C and endless reruns of Marx Brothers movies and old episodes of Candid Camera--anything that would keep him laughing and relieve his pain. It worked, according to the account he wrote up for the New England Journal of Medicine and later published as a book, Anatomy of an Illness...
Veggie lovers say the wild plants are more nutritious than the commercially grown variety. Nettles, for example, have 40 times more iron than a greenhouse-grown cabbage lettuce, 30 times more vitamin C and 20 times more pro-vitamin A. You may be wondering how anybody could eat nettles. Try this for a healthy salad: steep nettles in cold water for 15 minutes, dry, and mix with a simple dressing made of yogurt, mayonnaise, lemon juice, salt and pepper. It's tasty, crunchy - and doesn't sting...