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...offering with the word China attached to it, hoping to cash in by flipping their shares within hours or days of buying them. The bet is not a bad one: shares of China Life Insurance, the country's largest insurer, are up 64% since their Dec. 18 debut. Gold-mining company Fujian Zijin Mining Industry saw its stock price surge 73% in its first day of trading on Dec. 23. "The market is getting hot on IPOs," says Yang Liu, managing director of Atlantis Investment Management in Hong Kong. But she quickly adds a cautionary note: "We have...
...seedy adult theaters, today it is everywhere. It pours in over the Internet, sometimes uninvited, sometimes via eagerly forwarded links (Paris Hilton, anyone?). It titillates 24/7 on steamy adult cable channels and on-demand services (the pay-per-view reality show Can You Be a Porn Star? made its debut this month). It has infiltrated mainstream cable with HBO's forthcoming documentary series Pornucopia: Going Down in the Valley. And in ways that have only begun to be measured, it is coloring relationships, both long-and short-term, reshaping expectations about sex and body image and, most worrisome...
Nowadays doctors can help many of them. Since Viagra's ballyhooed debut in 1998, the little blue pills and their progeny (Levitra and Cialis) have been doled out--thanks in part to former Senator Bob Dole's TV huckstering--by the millions. They have been a boon for countless men (and, one hopes, their partners) while reducing demand for penile implants and other awkward mechanical aids. "We took Mr. V on our cruise," an elderly couple recently wrote Tampa, Fla., sex therapist Bonnie Saks from their post-counseling trip. "Had a great time. Thank you very much." Still, these wonder...
...honors-only 14-course track, to be offered within the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies (VES), will make its debut this fall, likely accompanied by an expanded cast of film-focused faculty...
...more in touch with the world we live in and even the biological environment inside our bodies. And Thundat is not alone in his explorations into the realm of the sensors. He's one of several scientists in a hot field we profile this week in the debut of a monthly feature called Innovators, a special section in which we'll be bringing you sneak previews from the front lines of creativity...