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...Fast forward a few months, several assaults happen, and Dean McLoughlin suddenly decides to patch up the administration’s incompetence and sell it as a success,” Hedrick said...
...Burj (meaning tower in Arabic) isn't everybody's idea of a place to stay on a holiday budget--the rooms start at $1,361 a night--but the hotel that has become Dubai's striking trademark is merely the centerpiece of an extraordinary effort to transform a small patch of sand surrounded by conflict into a magical vacation paradise that draws tourists from East and West alike. In 2002, 4.8 million visitors checked into Dubai's hotels, double the total for the past six years. Despite the war in Iraq, an upswing in Middle Eastern terrorism and the global...
...shallow irrigation trench winds away from the women splashing in the spray of a newly dug well, cuts through a patch of tall grass and curves past the spot where John Makur Agok tends to his peace dividends: a fragile array of seedlings swaddled in black plastic, a future of lemons, oranges, mangoes, papayas and dates. "What shows that I've resettled," says the rangy 43-year-old farmer, "is that I'm planting all these trees - and there's nothing to disturb them." For two decades, the people in Agok's village of Mayenwal have lived a life...
Like all substances that promise to increase desire and performance, whether they are prescription drugs or folk aphrodisiacs sold next to the cash register at the quick-stop store, MSH is tough to investigate because of the placebo effect. As Procter & Gamble discovered with its testosterone-patch study, arousal and desire are so entangled with one's state of mind that it's tough to figure out cause and effect. Says Altman: "If you're in a tribal society and taught that something is an aphrodisiac, it probably will be. But someone in Los Angeles taking the same thing probably...
...about Viagra affairs and split-ups. Some doctors are prescribing testosterone as a libido booster for so-called low-T women, helping push up testosterone sales some 17 times in the past decade to about $400 million annually. Variously given as a pill combined with estrogen or as a patch, cream or injection, testosterone remains unproven as a sex aid. Meanwhile, it can cause oily skin, unwanted facial hair, a lowered voice and an upsetting onslaught of sexual fantasies...