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...used stimulants to get an edge. Today's drug of choice, anabolic steroids - anabolic from the Greek verb meaning to put on or add - are synthetic compounds of such hormones as testosterone, known to build muscle and boost strength. Anabolic steroids cobble together simple materials from the gut and blood into more complex, living tissue, helping athletes bulk up - fast.(See pictures of the old Yankee Stadium...
...movie has a couple of brief enliveners. Dafoe triumphs over some awful dialogue by giving the role his nutsy-greatsy weirdness. And there's a really cool scene where Edward's home is invaded by a vampire that is severely blood-deprived - its face a skeleton, its skin parched, but majestic when it spreads its scaly bat wings and digs its long talons into the ceiling. Let the Robert Pattinson-style vampire warm teen girls' dreams; this one is a creature for your very best nightmares...
Hundreds of years ago, Icelanders entertained one another with Viking sagas - epic, blood-curdling tales about the raiding and pillaging of foreign lands. Today, there are new sagas being told on the craggy island about the greedy attempts by two foreign powers, Britain and the Netherlands, to pry every last krona from Iceland's shattered economy in order to repay debts incurred during the financial meltdown. The rift that's developing between Iceland and its European neighbors is threatening to leave the island isolated - and could even destroy its hopes of finally joining the European Union...
North Korea's propagandists rarely get to have as much fun as they do when writing the official annual New Year's editorial carried by various official news outlets. Brimming with venom and vitriol, the message typically consists primarily of blood-curdling threats to bludgeon various enemies into submission. In 2009, they wrote that the "daunting reality" North Korea faced required the "seething red blood of revolution...
...None of last year's call for blood was there. And just in case anyone had missed the point, Pyongyang reiterated it on Jan. 11, saying the key to its return to the six-party nuclear talks - which it had declared "dead" last April - was better relations with the U.S., starting with a peace treaty that would formally end the Korean War, which concluded with a truce that has been in place since 1953. The price of such rapprochement, it demanded, was a lifting of international sanctions on North Korea...