| Literatus: Green way to care
The key to everything, observed author and humorist Arnold Glasow, is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Today, scientists have uncovered one more giftedness among animals a gift of healing mental illness.
The skin, recent scientific evidence indicates, is the highway to mans stomach, in itself the proverbial highway to a mans heart.
The history of animal-assisted therapy (AAT) can be traced to the founding of the European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research (Cost) in 1971. It developed from the concept of green care, a philosophy of using environmental interventions to maintain mental health and treat mental illness. It uses farm animals, plants, gardens, or the landscape in recreational or work places to bring about health.
Two Meatballs is no comic cookbook
Don't be tempted to write off Two Meatballs in the Italian Kitchen (Artisan, $35) as a joke of a cookbook. It's anything but. This volume by Pino Luongo and Mark Strausman, friends and restaurateurs in Manhattan, is nominated in the international cookbook category for a James Beard Award to be announced in June. They are in heady company, including Anne Willan, who wrote Country Cooking of France, and Lidia Matticchio Bastianich, who penned Lidia's Italy: 140 Simple and Delicious Recipes from the Ten Places in Italy Lidia Loves Most. The book is an endlessly charming debate between Luongo and Strausman, co-owners of Coco Pazzo but both with other restaurant interests as well. A native of Florence, Italy, Luongo is all about Tuscan cooking. Strausman grew up in Queens with a New York City mix of Eastern European and Italian traditions.
Seen on Sunday morning: April 6th
GET STIMULATED, BRIGHTEN YOUR SMILE, SAVE ON 2007 TAXES, CRAZY SEXY CANCER and NY PHILHARMONIC -----GET STIMULATED----- Let go of the stress and unleash your creativity. Joining us this morning with some tips for making that possible are authors of "Stimulated", Andrew Pek and Jeannine McGlade. .
Earth Day hot air: The true crisis to come
YESTERDAY was Earth Day, with enough hot air emitted from politicians and bureaucrats to raise perhaps a truly valid concern about global warming. People in New Hampshire and around the country should indeed be concerned about the issue, because the push for drastic measures may soon result in a true crisis for us all. Figuring out the scope of the global warming "problem" is itself a task that few politicians seem interested in pursuing. They would much rather pass legislation. Last Friday's Wall Street Journal had a piece by a professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia that brought up this point, while poking significant holes in the hot-air hysteria. Prof. Patrick Michaels noted that U.S. Sens. Joe Lieberman and John Warner have proposed a law to cut greenhouse-gas emissions by a whopping 66 percent by 2050.
Power in Your Pocketbook
An astounding number of green, not-so-green and toxic options vie for our attention each time we shop. To help cut through the confusion, D.C. area writer Diane MacEachern who’s been figuring out how to live green for more than 30 years has penned a manual. Big Green Purse shows us how to become environmental shoppers who choose products and items safe for us, our families and our local ecosystem. MacEachern writes for women, because as she says, women spend 85 cents out of every dollar in the marketplace. Women do the grocery shopping, buy necessities for their families and typically use more skin and beauty care products. Nonetheless, her wisdom is user-friendly for both genders. By buying green we can keep ourselves and our families healthier, as well as make the world safer and influence business, even big ones, to go green.
An Open Letter to Oprah Winfrey From NaturallyCurly.com
Dear Oprah: It was with surprise and disappointment that members of our community at NaturallyCurly.com alerted us to your Great American Haircut Makeovers. In case after case, beautiful waves, curls and kinks were beaten into submission with blow dryers, flatirons and extensions. In one of the most curious cases, a beautiful woman - who was wearing a gorgeous and undoubtedly hard-won afro - was given stick-straight extensions. .
Mistletoe as Cancer Treatment: Review Calls Evidence Weak
For many people, mistletoe conjures up images of Christmas holidays, but in parts of Europe, mistletoe extract is widely used as a therapy for cancer patients. However, a new review of studies finds only weak evidence that the treatment provides any benefit. .
Briefly in Tompkins
The City of Ithaca Department of Public Works Water & Sewer Division indicated Wednesday that it will again be closing the 500 block of S. Albany St., intersecting with S. Titus Avenue and Hyers Street, at 7 a.m. today to install new water service. The street is expected to be closed all day, until work is complete. Health Department seeks dog for rabies check The Tompkins County Health Department is trying to contact the owner of a dog that bit a person while at the Dog Park, located behind the Hangar Theater, adjacent to Treman Marina. The incident occurred about 5 p.m. Sunday, April 6. .
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