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Enhancing oxygen delivery is a broad frontier. The process theoretically can be manipulated at many points. "It is inevitable that other pharmacological avenues to stimulate red-cell production will be explored--and exploited," says Dr. Michael Ashenden, project coordinator for a global blood-doping research consortium funded by WADA and USADA. "Putting in an EPO gene is only one way to get the same result...
...athletes tempted to cheat, a word of caution: advances in technology cut both ways. Ashenden's group is researching a powerful new tool able to precisely measure a person's metabolic profile. "Athletes who are doping are altering their metabolism, whether it's by taking a drug or inserting a gene," Ashenden says. "So if we can look at their metabolic profile and see it isn't normal, then that's evidence they have doped--even if we might not know what exactly they've done...
...Making of Ashenden," Warren Ashenden is the jet-set heir to a matchbook fortune. His father was the originator of the slogan, "For Our Matchless Friends." Ironically, Warren is literally matchless because he can find no partner to equal his self-image as one of the three or four dozen truly civilized men. Ashenden is a hopeless romantic, one of the "last young men in America," in middle age, "still looking for himself." And his story is a self parody of a hopelessly romantic Love Story peopled from Burke's Peerage. The 'Making' of Ashenden is actually a make...
...Brewster Ashenden, hero of The Making of Ashenden, is quite the opposite. One of the world's richest and most civilized men, he hungers after refinement. Ashenden does not, like Main, take life by the throat. It grabs him. Specifically, he is raped by a bear-a ridiculous fate but one that seems appropriate to break through the charmed circle of Ashenden's life...
Calder's Appendix B raises a different ghost, the one that gives life to another of Maugham's books that is still read, Ashenden, or: the British Agent...