Word: yam
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...year ago, were so bad she thought she was dying. "I was aching all over and crying all the time," she recalls. "At one point I was cutting a man's hair when, out of the blue, I had to fight back tears." Fulbright tried alternative remedies, like yam creams, but relief came only when she tried Prempro four months ago. "It was like a miracle," Fulbright says. "I was back to my normal self...
...pick the best Astaire-Rogers number? Robbins and Brooks had their favorites; Kracauer's reference is to "The Yam" from "Carefree," which is also the choice of Entertainment Weekly's Ty Burr. I love "Pick Yourself Up," another you-hate-me-now-but-when-we-dance-you'll-like me number, from "Swing Time." And I can't imagine a more beautiful expression of reluctant rapture than Ginger's in the "Cheek to Cheek" dance from "Top Hat." And not just the song (Berlin's finest) or the dance (one of Astaire's most brilliant). I'm thinking...
...film, Last Journey Into Silence, directed by Shosh Shlam, has saddened and shocked audiences, but it is contributing to a growing debate about the problem. "It's the last chapter in the Holocaust," says Henry Szor, a psychiatrist who treats survivors at Abarbanel Mental Health Center in Bat Yam, Israel's biggest mental facility. "The conspiracy of silence is being broken...
...Hong Kong's premier indie production company, Milkyway Image. And for two years he was COO of the film division of Charles Heung's China Star Entertainment. He resigned last month to?what else??make more movies. He's already at work on another crime film, P.T.U., starring Simon Yam as a member of Hong Kong's Police Tactical Unit...
...severe depression, posting a dispassionate analysis of the evidence for and against it on his website, www.quackwatch.com alongside similar dismissals of such nostrums as bee pollen, royal jelly and "stabilized oxygen." His site--filled with useful links, cautionary notes and essays on treatments ranging from aromatherapy to wild-yam cream--is widely cited by doctors and medical writers and draws 100,000 hits a month. It has also made Barrett a lightning rod for herbalists, homeopaths and assorted true believers, who regularly vilify him as dishonest, incompetent, a bully and a Nazi...