Word: eucalyptus
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Easily reached by regular ferry service, Ile St.-Honorat has sweet-smelling eucalyptus groves, sprinkled with lavender, thyme and rosemary, and generally rocky beaches. There are no cars, just nicely shaded paths. A quaint and spacious gift shop sells CDs of the monks' exquisite chanting as well as jars of their homemade honey and bottles of their wine...
...result, parents have been turning to all sorts of bizarre alternatives, including eucalyptus and neem oils and chrysanthemum-flower extract, solutions that have been recommended on the Internet. Others have taken to smearing their children's heads with mayonnaise, petroleum jelly or Crisco, then having the kids sleep in a shower cap. In July a 13-year-old girl in Lorimor, Iowa, died after her mother doused her head in gasoline and a pilot light on the family's hot-water heater ignited the fumes. Last spring, a six-year-old Oklahoma girl stopped breathing temporarily after her mother...
...years, the university has poisoned the animals to preserve oak and eucalyptus trees...
...AFTER CHRISTMAS AN EXPLOsion boomed through the eucalyptus-dotted hills of Aguanga, a small town in Southern California. Concerned neighbors came running toward a large mobile home that had burst into flame. Kathy James, her son Jimmy, 7, and two men managed to scramble out, but trapped inside, screaming in terror, were James' three younger children--Deon, 3, Jackson, 2, and Megan...
...year-old in 1969. "In the Haight-Ashbury, I rented a cheap flat and furnished it a la mode with a massive stereo and a mattress on the floor. Something new and exciting seemed to enter my orbit almost daily -- seven-grain bread, Zen meditation, the pungent smell of eucalyptus leaves. There was an earthquake, 4.7 on the Richter scale ... And one night at the Fillmore Auditorium, while Janis Joplin was wailing on stage, a girl in a see-through blouse ran up and kissed me without any warning at all. O, man. California...