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...pandas --fake Louis Vuitton handbags --Rumble in the Bronx II --black U.S. Army berets --Gap clothes --kung pao chicken --decent firecrackers --deer-antler powder --Falun Gong workout craze --kanji tattoos --7-ft.-tall B-ball players --campaign contributions --a place to dig holes...
Nonetheless, I headed to Hong Kong's Sheung Wan district, which is home to hundreds of shops selling all manner of traditional medicines. The window of the first shop I entered looked promising: dried seahorses were arranged on a dirty glass cabinet with pieces of deer antler inside. The smiling proprietor showed me a range of products that ran from deer's penis to a tea made from summer grass, a fungus that grows on the larvae of bat moths, priced at $600 for 500 grams. (There were no prices quoted for moth larvae penis...
...quickly became clear that there are a couple of decisions to be made - seahorse or moth? Antler or penis? - before getting all hopped up on Chinese sex aids. The first: Do I really believe that eating another animal's penis is going to improve my sex life? (Plenty of people do: one of the hottest sellers is a tonic made by soaking tiger, bear and deer penises in rice wine.) A follow-up question: Even if I do, is it remotely reasonable to believe that things that simply resemble penises, such as snakes and antlers, have the same effect...
...Antler Hotel: Houses a half-scale model of James Rumsey's steamboat...
...disposal, Heston has vowed to wage "a cultural war" in which gun control is only the first line of skirmish. At issue is nothing less than how Americans define themselves. From a wall festooned with flintlock rifles, Heston takes down a skinning knife made from a deer antler. "It was given to me when I was made a blood brother of the Miniconjou Sioux in 1951," he explains. He fingers it lovingly. And then the actor, who traces his Scots ancestors back to 18th century Canada, exclaims with sudden passion, "I'm pissed off when Indians say they're Native...