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...have taken over the trade, and they are meeting the astonishing demand in places like Flagstaff, Ariz., where "Katrina," a student at Northern Arizona University who first took it last summer, can now buy it easily; or San Marcos, Texas, a town of 39,000 where authorities found 500 pills last month; or Richmond, Va., where a police investigation led to the arrest this year of a man thought to have sold tens of thousands of hits of e. On May 12, authorities seized half a million pills at San Francisco's airport--the biggest e bust ever. Each pill...
What do corporate small fry think of this? "It can really hurt cash-strapped concerns struggling to maintain their profit margins," says John Emling, a lobbyist for the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) in Washington. "But if we have to swallow this bitter pill, we want some sugar coating (such as the proposed tax cut) to help it go down easier...
...just settling the planet but smothering it. It was not until the century was nearly two-thirds over that scientists and governments finally bestirred themselves to do something about it. The first great brake on population growth came in the early 1960s, with the development of the birth-control pill, a magic pharmacological bullet that made contraception easier--not to mention tidier--than it had ever been before. In 1969 the United Nations got in on the population game, creating the U.N. Population Fund, a global organization dedicated to bringing family-planning techniques to women who would not otherwise have...
...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...
BEYOND VIAGRA Ready for an alternative to the little blue impotence pill? An advisory panel to the FDA--whose recommendations the agency usually follows--has, ahem, doled out support for Uprima, a new impotence drug that works by targeting chemicals in the brain thought to be responsible for an erection. (Viagra, by contrast, increases blood flow to the penis.) Uprima can act in as little as 10 min. and succeeds in 60% of men, but it's not without risks: 1 in 30 subjects who took it either fainted or suffered serious drops in blood pressure...