AltWeeklies Wire
Well-Protected Cat Naps: Valerian Rootnew
Valerian has many medical uses, but the Wiccan application is a favorite: protection against lightning.
Boise Weekly |
Dr. Ed Rabin |
10-20-2005 |
Science
Bubbeleh, Have a Little Nosh: Starve a Cold?new
Starve a cold, feed a fever (or the reverse) is a crusty old gem handed down from old wife to old wife, then finally to the Farmer's Almanac.
Boise Weekly |
Dr. Ed Rabin |
10-20-2005 |
Science
A Pate Worse than Death: Baldness Remediesnew
The baldness cure crowd has piled onto the alternative medicine bandwagon with products containing extracts, botanicals, vitamins and minerals. The paradox is that trying to hide hair loss always draws attention to it.
Boise Weekly |
Dr. Ed Rabin |
10-20-2005 |
Science
The Eat Like a Bushman Diet: Hoodia Gordoniinew
As a spokesperson for a major brand of Hoodia-containing diet pills, ersatz socialite and reality show deep thinker Anna Nicole Smith is a natural; she never met a drug she didn't like.
Boise Weekly |
Dr. Ed Rabin |
10-20-2005 |
Science
A New Way to Wash Your Face: Neti Potsnew
Shaped like the love child of an English teapot and Aladdin's lamp, neti pots are as common as toothbrushes in some parts of the world.
Boise Weekly |
Dr. Ed Rabin |
10-19-2005 |
Science
Mold Attacks!new
If school officials in Gilbert, Arizona had played straight, Mesquite Junior High kids and teachers would have run for their lives. Numerous students, teachers and maintenance workers believe they were made ill by mold in the building.
Phoenix New Times |
Robert Nelson |
10-18-2005 |
Science
How Cocaine Made Miami: The Drug Dealersnew
A former big-time drug trafficker and a young contemporary dealer describe Miami's cocaine trade, which has racked up a toll of arrests and murders. Second in a two-part series
Miami New Times |
Carlos Suarez De Jesus, Kris Conesa, Rebecca Wakefield and Francisco Alvarado |
10-18-2005 |
Science
Hydroponically Grown Marijuana Is Dallas's Other Farmers' Marketnew
The cultivation and sale of high-grade marijuana seems to be driving a shadow economy that supports some Dallas musicians while they wait for the Big Break.
Dallas Observer |
Anonymous |
10-17-2005 |
Science
Why Can't We Sleep?new
Our need for Zs is competing against some deeply entrenched societal expectations, and Thomas Edison can take part of the blame.
Reno News & Review |
Kris Vagner |
10-14-2005 |
Science
Ancient Bones Found at Bison Beachnew
Archaeologists have uncovered the first evidence of an aboriginal bison kill in Illinois.
Illinois Times |
Jeanne Townsend Handy |
10-14-2005 |
Science
Illinois Governor Touts Latest Health Initiativenew
Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s plan to offer health coverage to the state’s quarter-million uninsured children plays to mixed reviews, as critics point out the state has put the screws to other health-care
programs.
Illinois Times |
R.L. Nave |
10-14-2005 |
Science
Curing Jamie Handleynew
One Portland, Ore., family pushes a fix for the autism "epidemic."
Willamette Week |
Angela Valdez |
10-13-2005 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
How Cocaine Made Miaminew
By 1980, Miami had become the cocaine capital of the United States. The drug's lasting legacies are evident 25 years later: a thriving international banking industry, an entrenched drug culture and the durable myths of Miami Vice. First in a two-part series
Miami New Times |
Brett Sokol, Rebecca Wakefield, Forrest Norman and Sean Rowe |
10-11-2005 |
Science
Portrait of a Cutternew
Inside Bedford Hills prison, women swallow pins and slice their arms, relying on self-mutilation to release their anxiety.
The Village Voice |
Jennifer Gonnerman |
10-05-2005 |
Science
Silence Surrounds Spring Creek 'Runner'new
When teen Adrian Sanders tried to escape his handlers en route from a specialty boarding school in western Montana, he ended up semi-conscious at the bottom of a 30-foot cliff. Why is Sanders County silent about the who, what, when, where and why?
Missoula Independent |
John S. Adams |
09-22-2005 |
Science
