Word: buttermilk
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...generations, people have restored the balance by eating yogurt, buttermilk or other products made from fermented milk. But nowadays, you can also down a few pills that contain freeze-dried germs. These preparations are called probiotics to distinguish them from antibiotics. Unfortunately, you can't always be sure that the bacteria in the products you buy are the same strains as those listed on the label or even that they're still alive. Probiotics are usually sensitive to both heat and moisture...
That so far has hardly been proved. President Taylor, whom more people wanted to look at in 1991 than did in the first place, was believed to have been done in with arsenic. On July 4, 1850, he ate a bowl of cherries and downed a glass of buttermilk; a few days later he was dead. In 1991 the subject was brought up again, his tissue samples were assailed with neutrons, and the forensic conclusion was that he had not been poisoned after all. Scientists were disappointed. But historians guessed rightly that a glass of buttermilk without arsenic is enough...
...early May, Joe Scheidler, head of the Pro-Life Action League and hardly a moderate in antiabortion circles, sat down at Sauganash Pancake House in Chicago to reason with some colleagues. Over mushroom omelets and buttermilk pancakes, the little group revisited a topic that had split a larger meeting of antiabortion protest leaders the day before at a nearby hotel: Is the killing of abortion doctors "justifiable homicide"? Scheidler says he argued that it wasn't. What if a doctor was killed, he asked, just as he was on his way to tender his resignation -- to quit...
...SHOES, BOOZE AND BUTTERMILK." AS A STUDENT at the University of Mississippi, Dan Goodgame had a professor who loved to relate the theory of supply and demand to those familiar objects of daily life. The lesson stuck, and today Goodgame brings a keen appreciation of the links between theory and reality to his job as TIME's national economic correspondent. "Economics is inextricable from politics," says Goodgame, who reported on Bill Clinton's sweeping economic program for this week's cover articles. "You can't really understand one without the other...
Interestingly enough, although the Highlands aren't considered the easiest slopes around these parts (see Buttermilk, above), they have the reputation as training slopes. Don't be surprised to see a number of small lifts, adorned with groups of three-and-four-year-olds bundled...