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A new study from Indiana University scientists may aid the pharmaceutical industry in better understanding a popular over-the ...

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Wet and shivering, I rose from the outrigger of a Polynesian voyaging canoe. We’d been at sea all afternoon and most of the night. I’d hoped to get a little rest, but rain, wind and an ab ...