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POTENCY. VASECTOMY. PROSTATE CANCER. In the past few years, prompted by the Monica Lewinsky scandal, the introduction of Viagra and Bob Dole's ED (erectile dysfunction) campaign, America has learned to speak more frankly about male sexuality. Now Dr. Richard Spark, a professor at Harvard Medical School, takes the case for openness a step further in Sexual Health for Men: The Complete Guide (Perseus). Spark tackles such sensitive issues as premature ejaculation, enlarged breasts and hot flashes in men, penile implants and male menopause...
BLOOD TESTS Researchers from the John Wayne Cancer Center in Santa Monica, Calif., are working on developing biological markers that could identify microscopic tumors as they travel through the blood. As many as 20% of women with early breast cancer whose tumor has not, as far as anyone can tell, spread to the lymph nodes have a recurrence of the malignancy after their treatment. Current thinking is that they must already have had so-called micrometastases in their bloodstream and that a blood test might eventually uncover the problem ahead of time. Depending on the result, doctors could then pursue...
...even those who tried, can forget National Brotherhood Week) and The Electric Company (kids hummed Silent E for minutes on end), then retreated to his blackboard. So the Rhino compilation of his collected works--all 45 songs, including the newish (I'm Spending) Hanukkah in Santa Monica--is cause for temperate rejoicing from word nerds of all ages. Everyone, sing a chorus of Poisoning Pigeons in the Park...
Frankly, if they're making a million overnight, how much sympathy can the rest of us have? One man, however, is working overtime on our behalf for the time off we're being cheated out of. Joe Robinson, 49, of Santa Monica, Calif., an adventure-travel magazine editor, has been on talk shows nationwide pitching a law that would guarantee three weeks of vacation to anyone who works at a job for a year and four weeks after three years. On his website Escapemag.com Robinson rants, "We're the most vacation-starved country in the industrialized world." A self-serving...
...seem to be a Sinead O'Connor kind of place. Given her reputation as a fiery, outspoken singer, one might expect her to favor shadowy, wrong-side-of-town pubs. Bewley's on Westmoreland Street at first glace seems like the kind of coffeehouse where one might spy Chandler, Monica and the rest of the Friends gang sipping cappuccinos. But in truth, Bewley's is a historic chain in Ireland (James Joyce is claimed as a past patron), so this is where O'Connor, who lives nearby in a three-bedroom apartment, chooses to meet and talk about Faith...