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...vaginal dryness, pain during intercourse and problems in achieving orgasm. Indeed, according to one study, more than a third of women in the 18-to-59 age group experience sexual dysfunction, compared with just 10% of men. "Male sexuality has always been viewed as more important," says Julia Heiman, a psychologist at the University of Washington and one of the nation's leading experts on female sexual dysfunction. "A man needs an erection to have intercourse, so it's easy to regard a man's sexuality as important and a woman's as sort of an interesting pastime...
Ever the New Yorker, Mark G. Heiman '00 found other ways to pass the time...
Last Thursday, 29 nations agreed to outlaw the bribery of foreign officials. This is the most important anti-corruption initiative yet that is directed at the supply side of corruption, said Fritz Heiman, counselor to the General Electric Company. These nations, all part of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), agreed to set guidelines for what is acceptable and not acceptable in bribing foreign officials to receive government contracts...
...among the most comprehensive in the world, it depends on methods -- sight, smell and touch -- that are suited to the hazards of the turn of the century. "At the time of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, the problems were visible -- lesions and rat hairs and dirt," explains Diane Heiman of Public Voice for Food and Health Policy, a Washington consumer group. "But today we've moved beyond that to invisible hazards, like pesticide residue and bacteria and microbiological toxins...
...natural problems in the witness chair, the experience can still be traumatic (as it often is for adults). In abuse cases, for example, youngsters must relive acutely painful incidents, and they frequently feel that they are the ones on trial. Those considerations recently cost Philadelphia Prosecutor William Heiman his sexual abuse case against the father of a four-year-old girl. She was the sole witness, and Heiman could not bring in her mother to relate what the youngster had told her because that would be inadmissible hearsay. The girl was not forced to testify, he says, because a "psychiatrist...