1.   For thousands of years, some cultures have used plants and herbs believed to have healing properties or to alter consciousness.

2.   Bills said many Native American cultures used milk thistle to treat liver toxicity from mushroom poisoning and hepatitis.

3.   Both cultures used the open-work hexagonal weave extensively, because of its strength, but both also made baskets where the weaving is tight and refined.

4.   But not all drug cultures use the same tools.

5.   For thousands of years, Eastern cultures have used the therapy, which is believed to increase circulation, thereby bringing more oxygen to an affected area.

6.   In one sense, such small-bore proposals tend to prompt titters among a Washington culture long used to grander goals and bigger spending.

7.   Officially supported culture used to flow more readily across the Atlantic.

8.   Prehistoric cultures used daub for plaster, making it from local clay and smearing it onto pole-framework homes insulated with grass, Logan said.

9.   Primitive cultures used to fear that someone could steal their souls by taking their picture.