Richard Beliveau, Ph.D. and Denis Gingras, Ph.D.
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 THE STRAWBERRY
The strawberry (from the Old English streaw-berige: streaw, "straw," and berige, "berry") bush is an extremely tough, resistant plant that grows wild in most regions of the globe, in North and South America as well as in Europe and Asia. Because of this widespread presence, it is likely that the origin of wild strawberry consumption is linked to the origins of humanity itself, a fact attested to by the presence of tiny strawberry seeds in prehistoric dwellings. |
Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN
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 Traditionally, it smelled like straw because it was made by inoculating whole cooked soybeans with Bacillus subtilis or Bacillus natto and incubated in straw. The straw also absorbed the none-too-fragrant ammonia-like odor. Because of frequent contamination by unwanted microrganisms, natto makers abandoned the straw method in favor of inoculating the cooked beans with B. natto, then mixing and packing the product in wooden boxes or polyethylene bags.59
Natto may be served with mustard and soy sauce, or used in soups and spreads in Japanese cuisine. A little goes a long way. |
Alex Vilenkin
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 A soda straw is a simple example of compactification: it has one large dimension along the straw and another curled up in a small circle. When viewed from a distance, the straw looks like a one-dimensional line, but close by we can see that its surface is in fact a two-dimensional cylinder (see Figure 15.3). Quite similarly, the compact extra dimensions will not be visible if they are sufficiently small. In string theory, they are not expected to be much larger than the Planck length.5
The main problem with extra dimensions is that it is not clear exactly how they are to be compactified. |
Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN
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| Traditionally, it smelled like straw because it was made by inoculating whole cooked soybeans with Bacillus subtilis or Bacillus natto and incubated in straw. The straw also absorbed the none-too-fragrant ammonia-like odor. Because of frequent contamination by unwanted microrganisms, natto makers abandoned the straw method in favor of inoculating the cooked beans with B. natto, then mixing and packing the product in wooden boxes or polyethylene bags.59
Natto may be served with mustard and soy sauce, or used in soups and spreads in Japanese cuisine. A little goes a long way. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 Some drinking straws carry the warning on the label "not for hot beverages" for good reason: if you put that straw into a boiling cup of hot cocoa, you are creating something akin to a hot-water extraction technique—not unlike that used in labs to help isolate and draw out chemicals—causing the chemicals in the straw to be jettisoned directly into your yummy cup of cocoa. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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 A tea made from oat seed or straw mixed with nettles is a particularly mineral-rich brew.
Other Uses
Oat husks are not only used to stuff bedding but are said to have a sedative effect. The straw can be used to make thatching, paper, and mulch. The hulls are also used to make construction boards and filters in the brewing industry. The hulls of oats are used in the production of furfural, a chemical used to make many industrial products such as nylon, glues, rubber tread, and lubricating oils.
Oatstraw tea can be sprayed in the garden to inhibit striped cucumber beetle infestation. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Forced to lie and live in their own urine and excrement, the sows chew frenziedly on bars and chains, as foraging animals will do when denied even straw to eat or sleep on, or else engage in stereotypical nest-building with straw that isn't there. Everywhere you see tumors, ulcers, cysts, lesions, torn ears -- these afflictions never examined by a vet, never even noticed anymore by the largely immigrant labor charged with their care. |
Alex Vilenkin
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| A soda straw has a two-dimensional cylindrical surface. It has a large dimension along the straw and a small dimension curled up in a circle. complicated surface with a large number of "handles" (Figure 15.4). As you go to higher dimensions, the number of possibilities multiplies. The vibrational states of the strings depend on the size and shape of extra dimensions, so each new compactification corresponds to a new vacuum with different types of particles, having different masses and different interactions. |
| If you absolutely cannot stand the thought of your double in a distant galaxy being a Republican (or a Democrat, as the case may be), and if you are willing to clutch at any straw to avoid it, let me offer you a couple of straws.
First of all, there is always a chance that the theory of inflation is wrong. The idea of inflation is very compelling, and the observational signs are en-
*This latter view is close to the Copenhagen picture, except it does not insist on the presence of external observers. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Forced to lie and live in their own urine and excrement, the sows chew frenziedly on bars and chains, as foraging animals will do when denied even straw to eat or sleep on, or else engage in stereotypical nest-building with straw that isn't there. Everywhere you see tumors, ulcers, cysts, lesions, torn ears -- these afflictions never examined by a vet, never even noticed anymore by the largely immigrant labor charged with their care. |
The Search for Other WorldsFred Alan Wolf
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| To observe a drop, a long straw is imagined to be inserted into the cloud. If an observation occurs, the straw disturbs the cloud and causes the cloud to momentarily condense, forming water, which is sucked up the straw as a tiny drop. If an observation does not occur, the straw does not disturb the cloud. No water is drawn.
Just where a drop will condense in the cloud depends on how thick the cloud is. If the cloud is uniformly thick, any point is equally likely to produce a drop. But when the drop is sucked up in the straw, the cloud vanishes. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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| Other Uses
Oat husks are not only used to stuff bedding but are said to have a sedative effect. The straw can be used to make thatching, paper, and mulch. The hulls are also used to make construction boards and filters in the brewing industry. The hulls of oats are used in the production of furfural, a chemical used to make many industrial products such as nylon, glues, rubber tread, and lubricating oils.
Oatstraw tea can be sprayed in the garden to inhibit striped cucumber beetle infestation. |
David Steinman
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 The Portland, Oregon, based cabinet company uses wheat straw, sustainable harvested FSC-certified wood, and petroleum-free particleboard. Their new Naturals Collection, which is drawing national interest, is made with double-sided, melamine-laminated wheat board, an industrial grade particleboard. Because it is made with wheat straw, wheat board is an annually renewable product and helps to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
Cabinet interiors in standard maple plywood also come with FSC-certified CollinsWood particleboard and plywood. |
| Estevan wore blue-jean overalls and a straw hat. Consuelo was in a big straw hat and a sundress with a scarf over her shoulders. She had crinkly eyes. She was diminutive. She came here in 1974 from the Philippines.
"The emergency crews knocked on my door on South
Church Road, and the moment they opened the door, I vomited on the man," she said. "He told me to go to the middle school if I felt sick."
Estevan, who was about sixty and had good work with Cal-Pacific Farms in Delano, told me, "We could see the fog coming closer like a big five-foot anvil. |
Dan Buettner
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 I had to weave straw hats to make money on the side." She pantomimed pushing a needle through thick straw to make a tight weave. I noticed that the repetition had permanently bent her right index finger at a 45-degree angle. Her husband eventually returned and they raised their children to adulthood. Two moved away but two still lived on the same street in rural Motobu. Her husband died ten years ago, at age 96.
The secret to surviving 75 years of marriage'1 sweet potatoes «T i j i_ ?
1 learned to be patient, she said. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 The point where one drop in the rain barrel let it overflow is the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back. Traditional medicine will spend millions of dollars investigating the straw. They will not look at the fact that the camel walked for 100 miles with a 100 pounds on its back, which is where the answers are. If we were to carefully investigate an individual who has come down with chronic fatigue, we would find the unique things about that individual's life—they were drinking alcohol and had a lot of marital stress and at the same time, they were doing a lot of running. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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 It is densely appressed downy, whitish, straw yellow or gray to black.
Leaves, Stem and Root: The sunflower is a 1 to 3 m high annual plant with a long primary root and numerous lateral roots. The stem is erect, branched higher up, densely covered in hairs, filled with thin white pith. The leaves are alternate, cordate-triangular, long-petioled, irregularly crenately serrate and covered with short bristles on both sides.
Habitat: Helianthus annuus is indigenous to central and eastern North America and is cultivated worldwide. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Some people prefer to drink it through a large plastic straw. Drinking it while keeping the nostrils closed seems to work best. If necessary, use a little honey between sips, which helps the mixture go down more smoothly. Most people, though, have no problem drinking in one go. Do not take more than five minutes for this (only elderly or weak people may take longer).
PLEASE LIE DOWN IMMEDIATELY!
This is essential for helping to release the gallstones! Turn off the lights and lie flat on your back with one or two pillows propping your head up. Your head should be higher than your abdomen. |
Bill Sardi
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 Unfortunately, by pushing for more study of environmental risks, the public perception of this environmental program becomes a straw man for the real issues in cancer, such as smoking, dietary habits, etc,"says Brian E. Henderson and Susan Preston-Martin, professors of preventive medicine at the University of Southern California School of Medicine. [LA Times, June 8, 1998]
DNA damage
The human body is resilient. Only one out of three or four heavy smokers will develop lung cancer compared to one out of ten non-smokers. |
| This online report, part of an advertisement for the herbal extract known as paw paw, or graviola, is likely to be grasped like a straw by any desperate cancer patient. But the online report never indicates whether the patient survived. Survival is the only gold standard by which to evaluate cancer therapies. For instance, surgery shrinks tumors, in fact it removes them, but may not prolong life.
Paw paw extracts became available in 2003 and soon thereafter were promoted as a cancer cure. |
| Journal Nutritional Biochemistry 16: 449-66, 2005]
Resveratrol tackles lymphoma
For Mack, a 57-year-old stock broker, resveratrol was more than reaching for a straw. He had a recurrence of lymphoma that was visible on his neck. He heard the news reports and even spoke with a Harvard professor about resveratrol. Would it be a cure for his lymphoma? It was worth a try. But shortly after he began to take resveratrol pills, a news story claimed red wine pills were not biologically available. A month later another researcher claimed resveratrol could actually cause cancer. He was alarmed. |
Shannon Brownlee
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 The final straw was when the pain specialist ordered another dose of methadone, unaware that the child's body was already so weakened that even a low dose of the drug might be enough to stop her small heart. By the time Josie was revived, she had already suffered massive brain damage. She spent two days on life support, and then, as her parents held their daughter tenderly in their arms, she died.
Josie King was killed by a third-world condition, dehydration, in a first-world—indeed a first-class—American hospital. |
Michael J. Panzner
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 A single straw, suddenly and without warning, can break the camel's back.
Of course, it remains to be seen how synthetically created securities and derivative portfolios with multiple influences and unstable statistical relationships will react under uniquely unsettling circumstances. Credit derivatives have never been tested in times of acute market stress, such as a collapse of the real estate market, a cratering economy, or volatile market conditions like the 1987 stock market crash. |
Mark Schapiro
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 On this day, as on most days, Krause, in her broad-brimmed straw sun hat and overalls and lively blue eyes, looked like the icon of the American farmer. Indeed, in many ways she is: Krause runs an organic farm, just over a hundred acres of broccoli, potatoes, carrots, kale, and an "identity-preserved" corn seed, under the Abbe Hills label. That seed line had been developed by the first family of farmers to work her land, and she and previous owners of the land had sustained it for over a century. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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| The fruit is globular and has a diameter of 3 cm, is straw yellow to brownish, and drops without dividing.
Leaves, Stem and Root: Coriandrum sativum is a 20 to 70 cm high plant with a bug-like smell. The root is thinly fusiform. The stem is erect, round, glabrous and branched above. The leaves are light green, entire below and double-pinnate above.
Characteristics: The fresh herb and unripe fruit have a buglike smell. Ripe fruit has a pleasant, tangy smell and taste.
Habitat: The herb is found in the Mediterranean region, central and eastern Europe, eastern Asia, and North and South America. |
Jeremy P. Tarcher
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 Rene also proudly takes us to see his hogs, all on beds of straw, not on concrete as in factory hog operations. The straw makes it easier to later use the hog's waste as fertilizer, and the composting straw keeps the animals warm, I learn later. (What a contrast to the virtual lakes of hog manure near giant hog operations polluting waterways both in the U.S. and Europe!)
Walking back to the car, Rene adds his final thoughts about his new way of farming. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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| Skin Disorders
A topical preparation of oat straw, consisting of dried leaves and stems of Avena sativa and containing silicic acid, is used in bath form to relieve itching from inflammatory and seborrheic skin disorders. A dose of 100 g serves for one full bath (Blumenthal, 1998). Severe itching caused by dry skin may be treated symptomatically using a variety of bath products including colloidal oatmeal mixtures, bath soaps and gels, and powders containing oat extracts (Anonym, 1997).
Smoking Cessation
A blinded study suggested that Oats may help smokers to cut down their cigarette use. |
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