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...Sean Connery, Bruce Willis and other macho men with shiny pates may be shocked to learn that the female sex hormone estrogen could play a role in their HAIR LOSS. Preliminary research indicates hair grows when an estrogen-blocking ointment is applied to the follicles of bald mice. The finding may lead to new treatments for hair loss...
...time for celebration? Yes and no, says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "It's the best deal we could have gotten," he says. The fly in the ointment: inspections into North Korea's nuke program won't start for five years. That's enough time for Kim Jong Il, the new chief in Pyongyang, to embark on a whole new nuke program if he so chooses -- and to do so with U.S. loans that come with today's accord. "A lot of people are holding their breath," says Thompson...
Johns Hopkins researchers say they have discovered what may be the essential signal that triggers erection: a tiny secretion of nitric oxide by penile nerves. An ointment that promotes the production of nitric oxide might alleviate impotence; one that inhibits production could relieve priapism, prolonged erections unrelated to desire. Also, if nitric oxide turns out to rouse the clitoris, medicated cream could help women reach orgasm...
...addition to these charges, Tseng was also accused of publicly exaggerating the results of his study by implying that the eye ointment he researched as a Harvard fellow was more effective than his studies indicated...
...because it violates the "one person, one vote," principle of constitutional law. Although the state legislature has tried to salvage the SRA by declaring ex post facto that the LSCs are appointed by the mayor of Chicago, this constitutional challenge has obviously thrown a giant fly into the reform ointment...