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Other systemic treatments (such as drugs that affect the entire body) can cause unpleasant and lasting side effects that decrease a person’s quality of life. That’s why many people may consider alternative, gentler, or natural treatment, known as complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). CAM for Breast Cancer CAM is increasingly common and popular, especially among breast cancer patients. It is estimated to be used by 48% to 70% of breast cancer patients in the United States....

The fusion of world music with more conventional pop, Latin and hip-hop rhythms isn’t new. Lou Bega’s “Mambo No. 5” was the summer song of 1999, and Polish chanteuse Kayah’s blend of Gypsy and folk music had people all over Central and Southern Europe dancing in 2000. But now, so-called world-fusion songs are growing in both number and popularity–and a genre that not long ago was derided by some in the music industry for its hippy-dippy beats is being viewed as a refreshing change from bland pop music....

By most accounts, the combination of Quaker and Snapple should make for a smooth blend. Snapple, founded as Unadulterated Food Products in 1972, brings to the table a knack for developing tantalizing flavors. It revolutionized the beverage industry in 1987 by introducing the first ready-to-drink iced tea to be brewed hot instead of mixed from cold concentrate. It also made a name for itself with such concoctions as Mango Madness and Kiwi Strawberry....

What we’ve found is that Egyptians have a true love-hate relationship with Americans. Merchants–who still suffer from the decline in tourism after the Luxor tourist massacre of 1997 and the lapse in air travel since September 11–want us back. The government tries desperately to assure visitors that they’re safe. When foreigners travel in the Sinai, they often receive a military escort from checkpoint to checkpoint. When we go to Luxor next week, we will travel on a guarded “tourist train” from Cairo....

Foreman, who went from a gold medalist at the 1968 Mexico Summer Olympics to a professional heavyweight champion and eventual entrepreneur, tweeted Sunday that he loves America, and that’s he’s not ashamed of it. “For about 54 years, people have ask me not to keep saying “I love America” Well I do and I’m not ashamed. Don’t leave it; Love it. Happy 4th of July,” Foreman wrote. Foreman won the 1968 heavyweight gold medal as an amatuer before becoming a professional the next year....

Washington has always been a town where politicians’ midlife crises are uncomfortably played out in public (paging Messrs. Condit, Clinton, Gingrich, et al)–but who expected it from stable old Al Gore? Yet there it was, staring out from page A14 of Friday’s New York Times: Al Gore sporting a new beard. And not just any kind of beard, mind you, but a scraggly, salt-and-pepper, chick-magnet, Ted Kaczynski kind of beard (which, come to think of it, might be appropriate, given how Gore has been a virtual hermit since he finished teaching his “journalism” class at Columbia in May)....

Hollywood can understand which lessons to draw from a phenomenon like “Titanic,” the most expensive movie ever made. Spend more money! But this? Let’s see: spend no money; don’t advertise on TV before it opens; don’t put any recognizable actors in your movie; open your film in a few art houses; then say 10 Hail Marys and wait for lightning to strike. Since teenagers were invented in the 1950s, we’ve had a long line of movies that seemed to turn the generational tables on Hollywood....

Today, fans of both actors are reveling in a bizarre anecdote shared by Rogen about his sometime co-star and friend, involving a massage prank. Taking to Twitter on July 5, Rogen, 39, of Bad Neighbors fame, randomly shared a story of an encounter he had with Rudd, 52, in Las Vegas. “Once I was in the spa in a hotel in Vegas getting a massage,” Rogen tweeted. “When I finished I turned over and to my shock Paul Rudd was massaging me....

A classic that, on rereading, disappointed: “Catch-22” by Joseph Heller. Trying to reread it recently was a disaster. I stopped after 40 pages, not wanting to tarnish my first rapt encounter with it. A Certified Important Book you haven’t read: Too many to mention: all Tolstoy, all Dostoevsky. I don’t like “magic realism” so that rules out “100 Years of Solitude.” The list is very long.

If Elian had wandered across the U.S. border from Canada or Mexico, he would have been sent right back to his sole surviving parent. Instead, he became a hot international issue the moment he was found bobbing in an inner tube off the Florida coast on Thanksgiving Day, one of three survivors of a sinking that had drowned his mother, her boyfriend and nine other escaping Cubans. On both sides of the Straits of Florida, the boy quickly became a political symbol....

Like the minister in Hawthorne’s story, who alienated his flock, his friends and his fiancee by donning a veil for no apparent reason, Moody is obsessed with what’s hid-den: what’s hidden in the past, what we hide from friends and loved ones, what we hide from ourselves. A lot of “The Black Veil” is spent turning over rocks, spilling secrets, “because I was like the guy with the veil, or he was like me, or at least the idea of the veil connected that time back in the early history of the nation to me getting out of the [rehab] hospital....

An NBC News/SurveyMonkey survey released Friday showed that 53 percent of independent voters supported impeaching Trump while 44 percent said he shouldn’t be impeached. Among the voters polled who identified as independent, an overwhelming 96 percent disapproved of how Trump is doing his job in the White House and just 3 percent approved. But job disapproval doesn’t necessarily correlate to support for removing Trump from office for independent voters. Nearly a quarter of the independents who don’t think Trump should be impeached still don’t like how he’s handled being president....

Original morning show may seem like an oxymoron. The genre is calcified, with its his-and-her hosts, wacky weathermen, fake living rooms and caffeinated time checks. The ““Today’’ show’s big innovation last year was to move into a storefront fishbowl in Rockefeller Center – right back where it started 40 years ago. ““Good Morning America’’ thinks its new theme song – Des’ree’s VH-1 hit ““You Gotta Be’’ – is going to bring back fleeing young viewers....

Related culturally to Finland, Estonia was ruled at one time or another by Germans, Swedes and Russians, until a period of independence between 1918 and 1940. The Soviet Union annexed it along with Latvia and Lithuania under the 1940 Hitler-Stalin pact. A major producer of electric power, it declared independence on Aug. 20. Population: 1.6 million (Estonians: 62 percent; Russians: 9.5 percent). This western Slavic society was the most intensively industrialized republic in the U....

But there is a more fundamental issue at work. The antiwar majority in Western Europe, and elsewhere, believes instinctively that this U.S. initiative is nothing more than a naked demonstration of military power. It is not predicated on self-defense (Afghanistan) or on the protection of others (Bosnia, Kosovo). Rather, it is a crude attempt to impose U.S. hegemony on a strategically important region–and, if it succeeds, the invasion will establish a dangerous new precedent for the 21st century....

Reported plans for the upcoming trip, which first appeared last week in the Financial Times quoting officials said to have knowledge of the matter, caused an immediate stir both in Washington and Beijing. The world’s top two powers scrambled to react to what would be the first visit of a House of Representatives leader to Taiwan in a quarter of a century. With U.S.-China tensions particularly high recently, Chinese officials have issued warnings in public and private against such travel....

Despite our tendency to focus on the extremes of the abortion debate, many Americans—including those who say they are pro-choice or pro-life—have come to realize that the issue won’t be settled any time soon. In a national poll to be released this week by the influential Democratic think tank Third Way, nearly three quarters said they wish elected leaders would look for common ground on abortion. The country is pretty evenly divided on their standing view of the question: 40 percent of registered voters say they’re pro-choice, 39 percent pro-life and 18 percent volunteered the response “neither....

CLARK: It’s worse. We’re seeing the same institutional infighting as in the past, with the Pentagon pushing its own interests and no clear vision of where it is going in terms of U.S. leadership in the world. We hear a lot of talk of preparing for the “next threat,” whether that’s rogue missiles or new enemies. The cold war is over. But we haven’t come to terms with this. Our new world is not dominated by one hostile ideology that seeks, as Khrushchev put it, to “bury us....

In this boom period for country music, Yearwood makes an attractive package. She has a strong, warm voice, driving ambition and videogenic good looks. “In the early stages I felt that one of the most important things she had to offer was that she was a beautiful woman,” says her manager, Ken Kragen. “We should use that asset.” Kragen, 55, is himself one of her more potent assets. A music-industry power manager, he has represented such highprofile stars as Lionel Richie and Kenny Rogers, and organized both the USA for Africa project that produced “We Are the World” and the 1985 Hands Across America fund-raising event....