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...much on the face of it (the drug's merits appear to be manifold; doctors think it might even improve the sexual response of postmenopausal women) but in the broader philosophical implications. Is sexuality, like the state of happiness or male-pattern baldness, just one more hitherto mysterious and profound area of human-beingness that can be pharmaceutically manipulated, like any other fathomable construct of enzymes and receptors? Another looming question: Since Viagra is taken--at prices ranging from $8 to $12 a pop--not on a day-in, day-out basis but only when one actually wants to have...
...figuratively licks his chops over the potential market in "aging baby boomers." He is careful to point out that "quality-of-life drugs are gene-based just like those for serious medical conditions. In areas like impotence, aging skin, baldness and obesity, the science is just as profound as if you were working in cancer, asthma or anti-infectives." In other words, Viagra is sober stuff and not at all akin to Sy Sperling's Hair Club...
Alexander Calder (1898-1976) may not have been the most profound sculptor of the 20th century, but he was certainly the most enjoyable of modernists--the man who delighted a public several generations long by making sculpture move. This year marks the centenary of his birth. Accordingly, the National Gallery of Art in Washington has put on a Calder retrospective. Admirably curated by Marla Prather, the show (199 sculptures plus other works) will move to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in September...
This was TIME's most interesting and profound issue ever, in particular because of Walter Isaacson's article "Our Century... and the Next One." Isaacson concluded, "The ultimate goal of democracy and freedom...is...to nurture the dignity and values of each individual." To my mind that idea is more than an American political idea. It is the promise to obliterate racial and religious bigotry, hence to end most of mankind's current agonies. It is the mutual spiritual purpose for all human life. OLIVER ANDRESEN Schaumburg...
...There is a major and profound change happening in medicine and health care in America today," Gordon said...