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"One of the first positive descriptions in the english language noted wafts of "incongruities" such as cream cheese, onions and brown sherry. It is banned in many hotels and public spaces throughout Asia. In Singapore, signs on subway stations warn that durian carriers face a five hundred Singapore dollars fine. Durianpalace.com thinks banning nature's grandest pudding is "a hopeless rule just like outlawing farts, when we know that it is such a pleasure and everybody's secretly doing it." Aviation alerts have been caused by passengers transporting the fruit in their luggage." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"On the other hand, I have established from the Lexis-Nexis database that in the english language the term new era economy did not have any currency until a Business Week cover story in July 1997 attributed this term to Alan Greenspan, marking an alleged turning point in his thinking since the "irrational exuberance" speech some months earlier.1 The term new era economy remained in regular use on the way to the peak of the stock market in 2000." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "United States uses the english language, which has emerged as a world language. It is much easier for foreign reporters, who invariably know English, to respond to stories from the United States or the United Kingdom than to stories from Germany or Brazil. Producing news stories is a business with tight deadlines, and it requires fast action. A lot of reporters have the ability to pick up a story from another country in English, and turn it into a local story in a pinch. It's a sure-fire strategy." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"James Ward) —Webster's New International Dictionary of the english language, 1930 edition jk M r. Wright was a very sick man. He had been admitted to the I \ / 1 nospital with a diagnosis of lymphosarcoma, cancer of the JL T Jl lymph nodes. Tumors, some the size of oranges, infested his neck, groin, and armpits. He was on oxygen and sedatives, and when his cancer ceased to respond to any conventional therapies, his doctors gave up all hope of a recovery. He had not given up hope himself, however." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"On the basis of the historicla facts I have outlined, available in libraries and bookstores throughout the world in the english language, it is unfortunate that leading contemporary psychiatric geneticists such as Gottesman, Faraone, Tsuang, McGuffin, Farmer, and Kendler, who have written about the history of their discipline, have not come clean about the role that the founders of psychiatric genetics played in supporting massive forced eugenic sterilization programs and the murder of mental patients, and in helping lay the scientific groundwork for Nazi genocide." - Jay Joseph, The Missing Gene: Psychiatry, Heredity, and the Fruitless Search for Genes (Get the book.)

"In their study the authors looked at english language studies appearing between January 1980 and October 2002 which examined the financial relationship between drug companies, researchers and academic institutions. Their conclusions reveal how concerned we all should be: Strong and consistent evidence shows that industry-sponsored research tends to draw pro-industry conclusions. . . . Consistent evidence also demonstrated that industry ties are associated with both publication delays and data withholding." - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.)

"Major Ager Stem Cell Slowdown What You Caw Learn—and Use— from Stew Cells to Keep Your Body Strong Say the words stem cell and you've triggered almost as much controversy as any other two words in the english language (besides maybe Barry and Bonds). While some may argue that you can't strip away the moral issues from the science of stem cell research for the study of aging, the fact is, that's exactly what we're going to do." - Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D., You: Staying Young: The Owner's Manual for Extending Your Warranty (Get the book.)

"The Warning Letter ended on the laughable note that the FDA was getting tired of translating the Sandoz response letters from German and admonished: "Therefore, it will be necessary that you submit not only the original documents but an adequate and accurate translation of each document into the english language. Failure to submit such translations will prevent us from reviewing whatever response or submission you make." - Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., What's In Your Milk?: An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the Dangers of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You're Drinking (Get the book.)

"A Canadian research team examined virtually all the research published in english language medical journals over a 19-month period, recording each author's position on one type of drug. The authors were then assigned to a favorable conclusions, a neutral conclusions or a critical conclusions group. They then contacted the authors of these published reports and made inquiries concerning any financial relationship they might have with the drug manufacturers. The results were dramatic." - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.)

"Animal research has reported antistress effects of Eleutherococcus senticosus (page 672) (also known as Siberian ginseng),109 and Russian research not available in the english language reportedly describes human studies showing similar effects in humans.110' 111 A double-blind study of healthy elderly people reported that those who took 60 drops per day of a eleuthero liquid extract (concentration not specified) scored higher in some quality-of-life measures after four weeks, but not after eight weeks, compared with a group taking a placebo." - Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D., The Natural Pharmacy: Complete A-Z Reference to Natural Treatments for Common Health Conditions (Get the book.)

"In 1967, he published Improving the Ability to Perform, titled Awareness through Movement in its 1972 english language edition. The Feldenkrais Guild?of North America provides accredited Training Programs which are required to be certified, to become members of FGNA, and to use its service marked terms for The Method. Feldenkrais? Feldenkrais Method? Awareness Through Movement?and Functional Integration?are registered service marks of the Feldenkrais Guild?of North America. USER COMMENTS; "The Method creates a smoothness of motion that is absolutely wonderful." - Alan E. Smith, UnBreak Your Health: The Complete Guide to Complementary & Alternative Therapies (Get the book.)

"A total of 43 trials from the search of MEDLINE and the Cochrane Controlled Clinical Trials Register Database between 1966 and October 2005, as well as other databases, met inclusion criteria such as english language, double-blind, randomized, and placebo-controlled. There were 10 trials of clonidine, 6 trials of other prescribed medications, and 17 of of isoflavone > extracts—six trials of which used Red Clover isoflavone extracts (genistein, daidzein, formononetin, biochanin)." - Thomson Healthcare, Inc., PDR for Herbal Medicines, Fourth Edition (Get the book.)

"To make this type of linguistic reasoning clear, let me give you a familiar example: the geographic origins of the english language. Today, by far the largest number of people whose first language is English live in North America, with others scattered over the globe in Britain, Australia, and other countries. Each of those countries has its own dialects of English. If we knew nothing else about language distributions and history, we might have guessed that the english language arose in North America and was carried overseas to Britain and Australia by colonists." - Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Get the book.)

"Serendipity first appeared in the english language after the eighteenth century letter-writer and author Horace Walpole's short story, The Three Princes of Serendip. This mythic fable was set in Persia, although its origins were thought to be Indian. It is a complex tale of three princes, from a Far East island of Serendip, that set out on a journey to prove themselves capable of becoming rulers. They succeeded, not as a result of painstaking planning, but through a combination of astuteness and an innate ability to 'ride their luck'." - Robin, Dr. Kelly, The Human Antenna: Reading the Language of the Universe in the Songs of Our Cells (Get the book.)

"As defined by the American Heritage Dictionary of the english language, terrorism is: The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons. So how has the FDA engaged in acts of terrorism? The FDA conducted an armed raid on the natural health clinic of Dr. Jonathan Wright." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"It was the British rubber industry that gave the english language its first use of the word gassed in its true modern sense, when an 1889 article in the Liverpool Daily Post noted that "gassed was the term used in the india-rubber business, and it meant dazed."39 Even in his very first report on the subject, Delpech recommended that carbon disulfide vulcanization be completely forbidden in small rooms. For larger facrories, he proposed that ditect contact with the toxin should be reduced if it could not be eliminated." - Paul D. Blanc, M.D., How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace (Get the book.)

"His description of an ideal society he entitled Utopia and thereby added a new word to the english language. And yet in his book^4 Dialog of Comfort Against Tribulation (1553)2 he advises treating the mentally unstable with "betynge and correccyon." More describes his treatment of one unfortunate soul who came wandering to his door. Translating the English of his day into our vernacular, we read that the man was "taken by the constables and bound to a tree in the street before the whole town, and there they beat him with rods till he became weary. ..." - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.)

"I am essentially a God-fearing man, an avoider of obscenities, and a lover of the english language. On due reflection I was persuaded of the intrinsic value of this word and of its non-off ensiveness. The students have been encouraged to use it freely where clinically appropriate. Not unnaturally, there were a few titters; indeed it would be true to say there were even a few guffaws at first. But once the word had been used a few times, it came to sound natural and as unremarkable as any other suitable clinical term." - Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D., Best Choices From the People's Pharmacy (Get the book.)

"Although the term laissez faire, usually hyphenated, is now a part of the english language, its practice—especially in medicine—has become passe. Every modern state is a dirigiste therapeutic state. Today, medicine is an integral part of the modern political economy; indeed, it is the single most important part. Modern psychiatry is a branch of the law, family court, and criminal justice system rather than a branch of medicine." - Thomas Szasz, The Medicalization of Everyday Life: Selected Essays (Get the book.)

"Chapter Seven Something Wicked This Way Comes The late president of the United States, Ronald Reagan, aptly explained government intervention this way: "The nine most terrifying words in the english language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'" Nowhere is this quote more appropriate than when applied to George W. Bush's President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health (NFC)." - Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.)

"Unfortunately, few have been translated into the english language. This monograph includes information from review articles (the review by Farnsworth is the most extensive encountered),2 as well as any original articles available in English. ADAPTOGENTIC ACTIVITY Historically, Siberian ginseng has been used as a general tonic, relying on its adaptogenic action. An adaptogen is thought to work in a non-specific manner, drawing the patient toward normal function, irrespective of the direction of the pathologic state." - Heather Boon, BScPhm, PhD and Michael Smith, BPharm, MRPharmS, ND, The Natural Medicine Guide to the 50 Most Common Medicinal Herbs (Get the book.)

"Webster, Noah An educator and author of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, best known for his American Dictionary of the english language and Blue-Backed Speller. He worked for the establishment of a distinctive American version of the English language; for example, he insisted on such spellings as wagon, center, and honor in place of the standard British waggon, centre, and honour. j*- A number of widely used dictionaries, of varying scope and quality, still bear Webster's name." - James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett, and E. D. Hirsch, The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (Get the book.)

"It is interesting to note that the words wholeness and health have the same meaning and same root in the english language. Identifying a whole food is easy. Just think of any food that is completely intact just as Mother Nature made it. Any produce, such as apples, broccoli or potatoes, whole grains such as brown rice, millet, or quinoa, vegetable proteins such as beans and legumes, animal proteins such as eggs, a piece of fish or meat. That's pretty much it, any food that is in its whole form containing all of its parts and nutrients." - Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C., If It's Not Food, Don't Eat It! The No-nonsense Guide to an Eating-for-Health Lifestyle (Get the book.)

"Kumquat trees were known to exist at least by the seventeenth century, when their name entered the english language in the form of "cam-quit," but the fruit was not introduced into Europe until 1846. In Western countries, kumquat plants used to be placed on the table at fashionable dinners so that guests could pick the small tasty fruit at will. Kumquat fruits are small (one to two inches in length), oblong or roundish, bright orange in color, and with the same kind of peel texture as that of citrus fruits." - Dianne Onstad, Whole Foods Companion: A Guide For Adventurous Cooks, Curious Shoppers, and lovers of natural foods (Get the book.)

"He compared this situation to that with the english language. You have a limited number of words in the english language, and you can put them together in many different ways to create the effect you want. Similarly, there is a limited amount of disease you can get, and you can play it out any way you want. We would like to think there is only one disease per one type of framework or one type of mindset, and that is not true. Trying to get some practical help, I asked about the itchy red rash which covered my legs, arms, trunk, and back." - Robert Sampson, M.D. & Patricia Hughes, B.S.N., Breaking Out of Environmental Illness: Essential Reading for People with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Allergies, and Chemical Sensitivities (Get the book.)

"The English word salt comes from the Roman god of health, Salus, who gave to the english language such words as salutary, salute, and salvation. General Information One of the most traditional of food flavorings, sea salt contains about eighty necessary mineral elements, and in the proper proportions, since they occur in seawater and our blood. Refining this salt produces a table salt that is composed of 40 percent sodium and 60 percent chlotide." - Dianne Onstad, Whole Foods Companion: A Guide For Adventurous Cooks, Curious Shoppers, and lovers of natural foods (Get the book.)

"Like Levi's occult heritage and Bulwer-Lytton's strange tales, Blavatsky's ideas would reverberate through the occult world, and this would eventually even transform the very language: the word "occultism" was unknown in the english language before its appearance in 1877 in Isis Unveiled.101 Through Blavatsky, who was one of the most influential people in the shaping of the 19th century occult framework, countless other occultists, theosophists and esoterists read about Keely and his discoveries. The first edition of The Secret Doctrine sold out quickly, necessitating a new printing." - Theo Paijmans, Free Energy Pioneer: John Worrell Keely (Get the book.)

"It can be expected that new translations will continue to appear because of the availability of new early manuscripts, because of the changing english language, and for doctrinal reasons. The Bibles used today have elements to ease their use that are not in older Bibles and original manuscripts. The present chapter divisions are attributed to Cardinal Hugo de San Caro, 1248; verse divisions in the New Testament are attributed to Robert Estienne (Stephanus), 1551. Most of the punctuation and some paragraphing is modern." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.) "The Tudor Period (1485-1605)_ The era of Tudor England, which began in 1485 with the accession of King Henry VII and lasted through the death of Elizabeth I in 1603, saw a modernizing of the english language, allowing it to reflect the humanist ideas and images of the European Renaissance. Fittingly, the sonnet, the 14-line form first developed in Italy, began to carve its deep impression into English poetry in the 16th century. The English Sonnet and Blank Verse During the Tudor period, nearly all sonnets were love poems, often expressing disappointment or despair." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.) "America gained recognition as a literary entity in its own right when it inspired Noah Webster (1758-1843) to compile the new American Dictionary of the english language (1828), but critics abroad scoffed. Transcendentalism, Romanticism, and the American Renaissance_ Romanticism originated in Germany as a late 18th-century reaction against the cold, clinical mind-set of Enlightenment reason. In the world constructed by the American Romantic writer, the individual reigns supreme, but not at the expense of civility—a departure from European Romantics such as Byron." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.)

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