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Pope estimated that the number of men in America who have muscle dysmorphia is in the hundred thousands, although he said that such number is a “crude estimate” since most people are extremely secretive about the disorder. Similarly, he said that three to six percent of all American teenagers have tried anabolic steroids at least once...
...decade of struggle he had finally achieved a hit Broadway play, All My Sons, and with its proceeds bought a farm in Roxbury, Conn. Leaving his family behind in Brooklyn, he repaired to the country, built himself a cabin-studio (he was a great carpenter), settled down at a crude desk he had also fashioned and began writing. He had a first line for a new play in mind, and some thoughts about its tragic theme--a man selling his soul and eventually his life to the false values of materialist America. By the wee hours he had completed...
...Social satires tend to be pretty crude affairs in the world of comix. Cartoonists tend to succumb to the genre's temptations of broad, easy caricature. Posy Simmonds avoids this with her particularly English dry wit. Rich with memorable characters, literary depth, cutting humor and pictorial panache, "Gemma Bovery" sets a new standard for intelligent cartoon satire in graphic novel format...
...Chinese Vice President Zeng Qinghong was the latest reminder that Chvez, a sharp critic of U.S. foreign policy, wants to cut Venezuela's dependence on the U.S. market and start exporting to his oil-thirsty ideological ally, China. Talks are under way to build pipelines to pump Venezuelan crude to Pacific ports in Colombia and Panama for that very purpose...
...tale of the plans for building a shopping center at the World Trade Center site and the ghosts that haunt it. One story, "The Future," about a time when email will be downloaded directly into your brain and coffee cups will have interactive features about celebrities, appears in a crude, early draft style that reveals how much goes into a finished piece. (As a result it's the weak link of the collection...