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...Mesher's story suggests, and many doctors insist, more isn't necessarily more with Viagra. Known to chemists by the less evocative name of sildenafil (the word Viagra, redolent of both "vigor" and "Niagara," had been kicking around Pfizer for years, a brand name in search of a product), the drug began life as a heart medication designed to treat angina by increasing blood flow to the heart. Sildenafil, it turned out, wasn't so good at opening coronary arteries, but happy test subjects did notice increased blood flow to their penises, a side effect brought to Pfizer's attention...
...Similarly, non-Christians in the Bible Belt may be put off by the clubs' evangelical fervor; members of the chess society, after all, do not inform peers that they must push pawns or risk eternal damnation. Not everyone shares the enthusiasm Proffitt recently expressed at a youth rally in Niagara Falls, N.Y.: "When an awakening takes place, we see 50, 100, 1,000, 10,000 come to Christ. Can you imagine 100, or 300, come to Christ in your school? We want to see our campuses come to Christ." Watchdog organizations like Americans United for the Separation of Church...
...Reported by Richard N. Ostling/Minneapolis and Niagara Falls...
...though, is a large and unwieldy animal. As the saying goes, students are here for four years, the Faculty for a lifetime, but the University is here forever. And consequently, what the University does is not all that important. It may seem from the outside as sublimely terrifying as Niagara Falls, but we must remember that the permanent stuctures and bureaucracies that truly make up the University are but the giant rocky cliff, shifting slowly and imperceptibly over time. It is not the falls themselves but the water flowing over them that holds the power...