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SCARY MONSTER: The Whomping Willow, the Mike Tyson of the plant kingdom...
...willow-waist in a black gown, Dunhill slinks around the room and rubs her sternum into some unsuspecting noses. At the end of the performance, she tries to get a rise out of the audience. “Did anyone here use duct tape?” she asks, motioning to her crotch, which she has bound with paper towels and duct tape. No one answers. She tries again. “So all the lesbians here sleep with their roommates, right?” she asks. She gets a few chuckles...
...more doctors learn about aspirin, the more impressed they are with what it can do. Not only does this cheap, century-old drug (derived originally from the bark of the willow tree) relieve pain and ward off heart attacks, but now there is also strong evidence that it is one of the few compounds that offer real protection against colon cancer, the second leading cause of death from cancer in the U.S. The results of two studies published in last week's New England Journal of Medicine clearly show that taking aspirin every day--in low or high doses--reduces...
...pill, Columbus is eager to let you know that your children may be very afraid. A presumably dead cat is hung in a Hogwarts hallway; Hogwarts students are frozen stiff ("petrified") by a monster; Harry and his sidekick Ron Weasley are attacked with surprising violence by a giant Whomping Willow after they crash-land a flying car in its gnarled branches. Later, they are chased through the Forbidden Forest by an army of giant spiders. The Mandrake plants - whose deadly screams require Herbology students to wear earmuffs - have roots resembling ugly, sharp-toothed fetuses. It's a disturbing image...
...acres of woodland in Willow River, Minn., Camp Heartland was started in 1993 by Neil Willenson, then 31, after he saw how Nile Sandeen, then 5, born HIV-positive, was mistreated. "Parents wanted him to have his own isolated seat on the school bus, and even his own bathroom at school," recalls Willenson. He made it his mission to create a summer camp that would offer the Nile Sandeens of the world a week of "normal childhood" during which they could experience fun like ordinary kids before they died. "I predicted I'd lose them all, one by one," says...