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There may be a cure for male grouchiness, but the patients have to be very, very grouchy. According to Willis Samson, a physiologist at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine, beneficiaries of the new therapy must suffer from a hormonal disorder that makes them, (ahem) "hypogonadal". The cure: testosterone shots or pills. Though excessive amounts of the hormone hae often been associated with aggressive, antisocial behavior, Samson presented research at the Endocrine Society's annual meeting in Los Angeles today showing that men who have too little of the hormone are less grouchy, nervous and irritable after...
...stodgy U.S. senate cannot boast many funny moments, and that's just one reason Larry Pressler is such a standout. Take the time a few years ago when the South Dakota Republican got up to leave the Senate Commerce Committee and walked instead into a closet. When he re-emerged a few minutes later, he tried to act as if nothing had gone wrong. He looked back into the empty space, waved as if he were saying goodbye to someone and closed the door. Then he located the real exit and left to titters from the audience...
...politically incorrect questions about the race and gender of its employees. This caused a public tiff that Pressler now says he regrets, although he was not sorry enough to drop his effort to privatize the corporation. Acidly summing up Pressler's record of gaffes and obliviousness, his fellow South Dakota Senator Tom Daschle, now the Senate minority leader, once said, "A Senate seat is a terrible thing to waste...
Still, Pressler is considered one of the most vulnerable Senate Republicans standing for re-election in 1996. His seat once looked shaky: a year or so ago South Dakota's G.O.P. Governor Bill Janklow considered backing a challenger to Pressler, though he now says he is happy with the Senator. Pressler's probable Democratic opponent, Congressman Tim Johnson, is making lots of noise and is practiced at pointing out Pressler's befuddled manner. During an interview on South Dakota public television in 1993, Johnson said, "I just get more and more people coming up to me, complete strangers, frankly...
Fans of the PBS children's show The Electric Company will recall a spoof of old radio detective programs; it was called Fargo North, Decoder. This indelible cultural reference aside, North Dakota's largest city has not received much media attention. So when Time correspondents Wendy Cole and Michael Duffy went to Fargo to report this week's story on the expected impact of federal budget cuts, the locals were flattered. "Countless times during my 10 days there," Cole says, "people asked what other towns we were visiting. When I told them none, they had trouble believing that their laid...