Word: liverance
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Testosterone, after all, can boost muscle mass and sexual drive. (It can also cause liver damage and accelerate prostate cancer, but more on that later.) That makes it central to two of this culture's rising preoccupations: perfecting the male body and sustaining the male libido, even when the rest of the male has gone into retirement. So will testosterone become the next estrogen, a hormone that causes men to bang down their doctor's doors, demanding to be turned into Mr. T? Do not underestimate the appeal of any substance promising to restore the voluptuous powers of youth...
...Bellow's close friendship with Allan Bloom, his colleague at the University of Chicago and the author of the phenomenally best-selling The Closing of the American Mind (1987). When Bloom, whose writings made him a hero among conservatives, died in 1992, the cause was officially announced as liver failure. But Ravelstein, the alleged Bloom figure in Bellow's novel, appears as a largely closeted homosexual who contracts HIV and ultimately dies of AIDS-related illness. Needless to say, given this tabloid age, Ravelstein has already produced a lot of gossip...
...good sources of vitamin C, look to citrus fruits, potatoes, strawberries, broccoli and leafy green vegetables. Vitamin E is tucked away in nuts, seeds, liver, leafy green vegetables and vegetable oils. You can get selenium from fish, meat, grains and--yes!--garlic. So before you reach into your medicine cabinet for another pill, glance down at your plate first. It probably contains all the antioxidants you need...
...bottom line, or RDA, remains the same: Hang onto your gelcaps, because nutritionists still recommend 75 to 110 milligrams of C each day and 15 milligrams of E. How you ingest that allowance is up to you: Chomp on a bunch of broccoli and eat a nice piece of liver - or go ahead and take that (one) vitamin pill...
DIED. IAN DURY, 57, 1970s Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick punk rocker; of colon and liver cancer; in London...