AltWeeklies Wire
Everlasting Tarnish: Colloidal Silver
A lifetime of blending into the asphalt is a high price to pay for the Best Costume Award.
Boise Weekly |
Dr. Ed Rabin |
10-20-2005 |
Science
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
No Child Left Behind
A look at the confusion parents of high school kids are facing in complying with rules about opting their kids out of military recruiting lists the districts are required to send to the Pentagon.
The Inlander |
Kevin Taylor |
10-20-2005 |
War
Tags: military, recruiting
The Super Floodnew
Massive mudflows one day will pour off the 14,411-foot volcano called Mount Rainier, bury Seattle's south suburbs, and reach as far as the city itself. It's happened many times before. This time, of course, hundreds of thousands of people will die.
Seattle Weekly |
Frank Parchman |
10-20-2005 |
Disasters
Tags: disasters
My Beautiful Careernew
How did the newsroom suddenly become so gorgeous?
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
10-20-2005 |
Media
Tags: media
Paradise Lostnew
Strangely, it wasn’t the hurricane itself that tore down the life and family of Daniel Dotta. It was the clean-up crew that came along behind it. With hard work and sacrifice, Dotta and his family had been creeping their way up the economic ladder. But then along came Cesar Flores Nunez.
Jackson Free Press |
Adam Lynch |
10-20-2005 |
Immigration
Tags: Immigration
Dotcom Bookseller Funds Literacy Project in Bolivianew
Biblio.com, the third largest online marketing site for used and rare books, has created a nonprofit effort dubbed BiblioWorks.org to build libraries and fund literacy efforts in Bolivia.
Mountain Xpress |
Cecil Bothwell |
10-20-2005 |
Education
Tags: Education
With a Little Help From My Friendsnew
Six weeks after Katrina, the tiny town of Waveland is getting by with help from some hippies and a rock band—not the federal or state government.
Jackson Free Press |
Eileen Loh Harrist |
10-20-2005 |
Disasters
Tags: disasters
Smelling Blood on Bushnew
Wide-awake after four years of slumber, the mainstream media is finally turning on Bush.
Boston Phoenix |
Mark Jurkowitz |
10-20-2005 |
Media
Tags: media
Yes, You Should Be Afraid of Avian Flunew
As avian flu threatens to kill millions, President Bush bets our lives on the free market.
Boston Phoenix |
David S. Bernstein |
10-20-2005 |
Disasters
Tags: disasters
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
A Day in Court for Neighbors of Rocky Flatsnew
Opening arguments finally got under way in the class-action suit against the two companies that operated the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant until 1989.
Westword |
Patricia Calhoun |
10-18-2005 |
Environment
