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...shrouded in secrecy that it's Maryland physician - and gym rat - John Ziegler who is usually given credit for first creating anabolic steroids. After reportedly learning that Soviet weightlifters at the 1954 World Weightlifting Championships in Vienna were getting a boost from testosterone, he returned home eager to give U.S. lifters a similar up. But Ziegler's early attempts at dosing left athletes complaining of illness and with little improvement in strength...
...perched on the set of The O'Reilly Factor, luminous, eager and game, her fans saw the woman they fell in love with in the summer of 2008 - still larger than life on the small screen. Brimming with cracker-barrel charm and acerbic scorn, she ridiculed Barack Obama, championed conservative positions and solutions and attacked as clueless the media, with which she has clashed so often. Her foes, including many of the aides who worked for Senator John McCain on his 2008 presidential campaign, also saw a familiar figure - one who, in their estimation, stumbled over syntax, fumbled with...
...Dubai in Peril The crisis in Dubai is the crisis of unsustainable folly [Dec. 14]. It's amazing how eager our banks have been to pour money into a city-state sucking in vast amounts of energy and water to build and maintain a monstrous playground for the very rich. Heaven knows what its carbon footprint is. At its heart there is a sickness, with tales of dreadful working conditions for migrant laborers, who form a kind of permanent underclass. But what else can be expected of a place where the rich can party in their castles of sand while...
Dubai in Peril The crisis in Dubai is the crisis of unsustainable folly [Dec. 14]. It's amazing how eager banks have been to pour money into a country that sucks in vast amounts of energy and water to build a playground for the very rich. At its heart there is a sickness, with tales of dreadful working conditions. But what else can be expected of a place where the rich can party but human rights for the poor are not on the agenda? Derek Smith, LONDON
People stockpiled gold and grain and canned chicken chow mein in anticipation of the apocalypse that didn't happen. But few foresaw the apocalypses that did, not to mention the then inconceivable phenomena - Twitter, Twilight, Rachael Ray. So we come to a new calendar eager to assign certainty; each month has its rituals, and somewhere, someone is forever celebrating something. January, naturally, is National Oatmeal and Hot Tea Month. April, less naturally, is Irritable Bowel Syndrome Awareness Month. July seems a strange month to choose as Bioterrorism/Disaster Education and Awareness month. I don't want to be aware of anything...