I like to think she's Cabbage Patching.

That's all I can see now.

I'm with Susan on NYC. Every time I visit, I catch myself thinking "I could live here", but reading the Times Style section every Sunday makes me think I couldn't.

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Saying that "Ephedra has been safely consumed for hundreds of years" is like saying "Coca leaf has been safely consumed for hundreds of years": true but irrelevant. People weren't taking ephedra in large quantities 100 years ago, and they weren't taking refined ephedra.

NYC isn't big. NYC is a lot of small villages, smooshed very close together.

Saying that "Ephedra has been safely consumed for hundreds of years" is like saying "Coca leaf has been safely consumed for hundreds of years": true but irrelevant. People weren't taking ephedra in large quantities 100 years ago, and they weren't taking refined ephedra.

True enough, but I'm pretty sure that if you eat too many Vitamin C tablts, you die. For some people, who are conscious of the risks and act accordingly, ephedra is safe.

I would like to live in NYC for about 2 years. Enough to get the experience, but after that, I think I'd be ready to move on.

If you eat too many Vitamin C tablets, you just have very expensive pee. Too much Vitamin A, on the other hand, can kill, which is why you should never eat polar bear liver.

[Oops. That's Vitamin A, not Vitamin D.]

t checks polar bear liver off the menu for tonight

I don't know if it's irrelevant to the ruling. He hasn't released it from regulation, or declared it safe or anything. I think saying "It has been taken safely" is relevant to a decision whether it needs to be banned or can maybe be regulated.

But when you say "100s of years", you aren't talking about ephedra in the form in which it was removed from the market. You're talking about herbal teas, which are a much, much weaker formulation.

I thought polar bear liver was full of Vitamin E. But I learned that from a Dick Francis novel.