Paging Dr. Weil: The International Congress of Traditional and Indigenous Medicine meets in Albuquerque. On the agenda: indigenous healing rituals and unconventional methods for treating cancer and AIDS, a German researcher's take on medicinal plants, and a Canadian who will speak to the medicinal properties of shark cartilage.
But then again, who could care about any of this when there's football on TV? Monday Night Football gives us a preseason taste with a game between two teams on their way down the NFL food chain, the New England Patriots and the Dallas Cowboys.