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...easy. In industrialized countries, illegal pill-peddlers prefer selling imitations of "lifestyle drugs" that treat hair loss, obesity and sexual dysfunction-products for which there is high demand. But the embarrassing nature of the conditions the medications are designed to address makes policing more difficult. Many consumers prefer to bypass their doctors and buy prescription drugs such as Viagra through discreet (and often unregulated) distribution channels such as the Internet and unlicensed pharmacies. Few complain when they realize they've been had. "It's too embarrassing to admit you use Viagra and say it doesn't work," says Peter Lowe...
...snacks, bypass the on-premises restaurants and duck outside. Just up the twisty lane is a local outpost of Neal's Yard Dairy, the stunning cheese shops specializing in small producers in Britain. Adjacent to Neal's is Monmouth Coffee. And for great wine-and-food pairings, head back over the river to ritzy Knightsbridge...
...ZEALAND After a year of fierce public debate, a controversial law on ownership of the nation's foreshores and seabed passed its first reading in Parliament. Designed to bypass a Court of Appeal ruling that Maori tribes could apply for title to areas below the high-water line, the law vests ownership in the Crown but allows Maori to claim "ancestral connection" to parts of the coastline and insist on being consulted about their use. Maori leaders who object to the law say the foreshores are part of their people's heritage; opposition politicians say the law gives Maori more...
...ratchet up pressure on right-wing members of the Knesset, who oppose any abandonment of settlements in the occupied territories, to go along with the plan to withdraw from Gaza, which enjoys the support of most grass-roots Likud members and a majority of Israeli voters. Sharon aims to bypass his political opponents by appealing to a broader constituency. "I advise you to take me seriously," he told an interviewer last week. "I have the power to do this...
...more than 4,000 patients showed that those who started taking Lipitor instead of Pravachol within a week or so after being hospitalized for a heart attack or unstable angina had a 16% lower rate of getting worse--dying, suffering a subsequent heart attack or stroke, or requiring bypass surgery. But the seemingly obvious conclusion is not necessarily the right one. Here...