Hair News Reporter-Part 2

Hi Neil...Thanks for the email. You are a sweetheart. Jeff is catching zzzz's but I..as always am awake...getting ready to issue a brand new front page. Stay tuned. I am almost finished writing the new site of the week and we have some lovely photos to add and some interesting articles.You know me.... :-)Thanks for the heads up (no pun intended). LOLKaren> Hi again,> Now this post is not in any way connected> to the "goings on" of the other evening,> but it is an interesting, but somewhat weird news> item.> I am always behind on my reading and I was> just getting to the August '98 issue of "National> Geographic". In the Geographica section (about> 21 pages into the mag) there is an article about> a chimpanzee that is in a zoo in England who had> a major hair loss and health problem. There is> a photo of this hairless chimp. It is a very strange> sight to be sure, but that is only half the story.>> The zoo director brought in a local farmwife> who deals in natural medicines. She put the chimp> on acid-free diet--heavy on cereal, yogurt, brown> bread, and apricot jam--and cococted a cream from> goat's milk and oils of rosemary, parsley, and> marjoram.> The chimp's health has returned and so has> his hair. The farmwife, Mrs. Brown, is trying> her diet and salve on humans. She said her husband> is growing hair on a bald spot he's had for 45> years (gosh, I hope it was on his head). She has> plans to market the product.> I don't make the news, I just report it.>> Now you "guys" quit laughing, this> is a serious post! There are a lot of people who> might be helped by this.> For a chuckle though, you 'should' check> out that pic of the hairless chimp. It is a side> shot, so no full frontal nudity.> Hairy, the reporter, NOT (Neil)>