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...steroid that makes an athlete stronger without inflating him like Bluto. Who knew? It's called Primobolan, and Yankees superstar Alex Rodriguez has admitted using it in 2003 as a Texas Ranger. Given recent scandals, fans may soon need a chemistry degree to read the sports pages. Deca-Durabolin, stanozolol, human growth hormone, Depo-Testosterone, the cream, the clear--you can't keep 'em straight without a program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moment | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

That was not the case with New York Yankees slugger Jason Giambi, whose vivid description to the same jury of the outlaw apothecary available to athletes also made its way into the Chronicle. Unlike Bonds, Giambi said he knew what he was taking and told of injecting the steroid Deca Durabolin in 2001. Giambi said Anderson had provided him with the clear, or THG (tetrahydrogestrinone), a then undetectable synthetic steroid that's absorbed with a few drops under the tongue. Anderson also gave him the cream, a mixture of testosterone and epitestosterone that's rubbed into the skin. Giambi also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Pumped Up is Baseball | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...have listed my conclusions below: ten things that made my stay in the house intensely enjoyable. The grouping under "decadence" suggests, of course, both their superfluity and the "deca" implicit, though etymologically unrelated, to the word...

Author: By Maryanthe E. Malliaris, | Title: Decadence | 12/18/2000 | See Source »

...tribute to postwar Hollywood style: the vulgar vitality, the supersaturated colors, the new aristocracy of teen taste. Gaud is in the details here. A glimpse in Valerie's refrigerator reveals a package of lo-cal Pop-Tarts; the movie is a hi-cal Pop-Tart to go. At the Deca Dance disco, a teenybopper flashes past wearing earrings cut from American Express cards. "They're my dad's," she confides in a gag that doesn't waste a millisecond of screen time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Tasty Hi-Cal Pop-Tart to Go | 5/15/1989 | See Source »

Despite the best efforts of the party, Moscow has been invaded by the twist, the frug and almost every other deca dent dance step devised in the West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Like Maybe the Bunny Hop? | 9/9/1966 | See Source »

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