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...club seriously ill after going on a dohan with a man now believed to be Obara. She had been drugged and, she suspected, sexually assaulted. Iizuka says she was so pale and weak, he had an ambulance take her from his club to a doctor. Tests revealed her liver function was seriously depleted. Iizuka says he took her to the police on more than one occasion and attempted to help her file rape charges against the unknown assailant, whom, he believes, could have been identified. "But the police asked me, 'What are you doing here?'" says Iizuka...
...goes down - which, if it's feeling merciful, is roughly once a week - the program instantly pretends to forget every song I ever fed it. Like a grandparent feigning deafness, it has to go off and "listen" to every single track for a couple of seconds before it'll function again. Since my combined CD and download collection is now pushing 10,000 tunes, the water-torture reload process takes at least a couple of hours, during which I make up for the sudden silence by keeping time with my head against the screen...
...mind the most important function of the provost is to serve as the deputy to the president. You want someone who has a complementary personality to the president, who can stop in and chat for 10 minutes...
...fact, errands are already getting easier. Many Japanese convenience stores are fitted with terminals that function as combination ATMs and online shopping kiosks, offering CDs, concert tickets and hotel reservations. The next step, say industry experts, is to link conventional vending machines with Japan's ubiquitous cellular telephones. In March, Japanese telecommunications giant NTT DoCoMo announced that it is teaming up with Coca-Cola Japan and Itochu Corp. to test a system that will link i-mode, the company's Net phone service, with vending machines, allowing users to pay for drinks by pressing a few buttons on their handsets...
...immediate worry over whether they will be cured, men who undergo prostate-cancer surgery invariably fear they'll lose the ability to have spontaneous sex--which can happen if doctors need to cut nerves that send arousal signals to the penis. Now researchers report that they've salvaged sexual function in more than 100 men by rewiring the penis with a nerve taken from the ankle. The procedure is still experimental, however, and the grafts are not as good as the original...