Tuesday, March 1, 2005

Spotlight
Alternative medicine is quickly becoming more and more accepted as a way of battling ailments. A variety of therapeutic or preventative health care methods include homeopathy, naturopathy, acupuncture, and herbal medicine. Recently, for example, St. John's Wort was found to be as effective in treating depression as Paxil, but without the side effects. (story)

Quote
"A man's nature runs either to herbs, or to weeds; therefore let him seasonably water the one, and destroy the other." -- Francis Bacon

Word of the day
balneology -- the science of the therapeutic use of baths (© )

Today's News

• The Sound of Music: first full staging in Austria (story)
• WiMAX: challenge to broadband (story)
• Lawrence Summers: differences between intellectual abilities of the sexes supported by some experts (story)

Today's History

• Yellowstone: became world's first national park (1872)
• Peace Corps: created by executive order of JFK (1961)
• Bobby Sands: began a hunger strike in N. Ireland; he died 65 days later (1981)

Today's Birthdays

• musicians: Frederic Chopin (1810-1849), Glenn Miller (1904-1944), and Harry Belafonte (78)
• Ralph Ellison: author of Invisible Man (1914-1994)
• Yitzhak Rabin: Israeli prime minister who was assassinated (1922-1995)
• Apollo 13: Director of Flight Crew Operations Deke Slayton (1924-1993) and movie director Ron Howard (51)