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Healthy nervous and circulatory systems are vital to achieving and maintaining an erection, researchers explain. When a man is sexually aroused, stimulated nerves trigger a chemical reaction that causes the corpora cavernosa, two rod-shaped bundles of spongy muscle that run along each side of the penis, to relax and draw in extra blood. As the chambers fill, they expand, pressing shut veins that normally drain blood from the organ. With blood coming in and none going out, the penis becomes rigid and erect...
Sullivan says Posner asked for the Council's permission to erect the menorah in Harvard Square because he was "not dealing with the Common, so additional authorization was needed." Posner said he wanted to light the candles near Out of Town News because more people would see them there than on the Common...
...marriage to Ira. Maggie is caught between what she knows about herself and what her husband tells her she is. For Tyler, love is seeing yourself in your lover's eyes and assessing that version against the person you would like to be. The problem is that we invariably erect barriers to prevent ourselves from truly communicating and from being vulnerable...
...hitch: they are still expected to comply with the Group Areas Act, an apartheid law that compels them to live in segregated nonwhite homelands and townships. For many, the only recourse has been to leave the townships and rent housing from white owners in the cities or erect makeshift shacks on idle farmland, roadsides and in parks and / gardens. The result: as many as 7 million illegal squatters and the rise of "gray areas," whites-only districts where landlords have rented space to more than 100,000 blacks, coloreds and Asians...
...year-old Princeton, where the notion of academic endeavor is firmly associated with rigorous winters and a stern Puritan work ethic. Reflecting the early contempt heaped on Palo Alto by the Eastern establishment, one 19th century editorialist wrote that "Stanford's great wealth can only be used to erect an empty shell...