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A Biodiversity Pact With a Premium; U.S. Fears Rio Treaty Would Threaten Kindred Concessions in Future
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A Costa Rican deal with an international drug company
illustrates the sort of hard-nosed commercial issue that lies at the
heart of the Bush administration's worries about a biodiversity
treaty to be signed later this week at the United Nations Earth
Summit.
Costa Rica is a reserve of biological diversity. It has a
population of only 3 million homo sapiens - about .05 percent of the
world's total - but its small territory contains as much as 5
percent of all the other species of flora and fauna that exist on
the planet.
In 1991 a private Costa Rican research center, the National ...
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Local Author Researches Biblical Herb 'Hyssop'
Newspaper article from: Los Angeles Sentinel
; ...05-2000 Local Author Researches Biblical Herb `Hyssop' "The Hyssop Man" is what local natural health advocates call Willie Southall, some even call him "Willie Hyssop." Word of mouth has been the impetus behind successful...
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Country & Garden: Herbs - No 41: Hyssop
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; "PURGE ME with hyssop and I shall be clean," churchgoers sing...51st Psalm. Few are likely to connect hyssop's ancient history as a cleansing herb...ignored this, firmly placing "scrubby hyssop" on the hill of Calvary or, in Wallace...
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Hyssop and horehound.
Magazine article from: Natural Life
; ...suddenly is covered with blue flowers. The hyssop is blooming. It flowers with the white...the green and gold of the ginger mint. Hyssop (Hyssopus officinalis) is an evergreen...place in the garden with a light soil. Hyssop is a bitter herb and very aromatic. It...
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"Fancy" Watermelon With Chevre and Anise Hyssop
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...Fancy" Watermelon With Chevre and Anise Hyssop About 24 bites These hors d'oeuvres...Odessa Piper's favorite herb, anise hyssop (see TIP, below). Use only the individual...of residual sweetness. 16 large anise hyssop leaves (may substitute mint leaves...
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ANISE HYSSOP
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; Plant of the Week ANISE HYSSOP Sunday, August 18, 2002 Botanical...bees -- love it. The scent of anise hyssop leaves is interesting and aromatic...drought- and heat-tolerant, anise hyssop is related to mints. Check the square...
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TIP ABOUT ANISE HYSSOP The h ...
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...It can be distinguished from other hyssops by the licorice fragrance released when the leaf is crushed. Use anise hyssop anywhere you would use fresh mint leaves...delicious infusion for tea. Anise hyssop plants are available at the Takoma...
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Of cedars and hyssop
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post
; ...among [that is, ignited] the cedars, what can the wall-hyssop say [to save itself] ... ? !" (Moed Kattan 25b) This...of the trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon to the hyssop that grows out of the wall." (I Kings 5:12-13). I...
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Hyssop.(Your Own Pages)
Magazine article from: Highlights for Children
; [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Hyssop Annabel Barry, Age 11 Connecticut
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ISRAEL: PICKING HYSSOP OUTLAWED.
Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database
; ...Feb 17), a new regulation implemented by the Israeli Wildlife and Nature Authority prohibits the picking of za'atar (hyssop), a popular spice in Middle Eastern cuisine, MA'ARIV reported. The regulation is a reaction to mass, uncontrolled harvesting...
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Humble herb at the first Passover
Newspaper article from: Cleveland Jewish News
; ...which we derive the English translation, hyssop. Two things are certain: The ezov mentioned...Exodus is not the same plant as the common hyssop, Hyssopus officinallis; the latter a...Testament. Most scholars agree that the hyssop of the Exodus is a species of marjoram...
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