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...substance to heighten sexual desire. Now researchers have found one that does just the opposite. They have developed a drug called ben-peridol, which, they claim, reduces or completely abolishes sexual desire. Doctors tested the drug successfully at London's Wormwood Scrubs prison, and believe it could prove valuable for treating sexual offenders. They also apparently feel that many law-abiding Britons are ready for a real version of the fictional "Anti-Sex League" in George Orwell's novel, 1984. Starting this month, they plan to market their antisex pill under the name Anquil...
...sign of poor breeding. For Arabs of all social levels, however, gestures are an indispensable part of any conversation. "To tie an Arab's hands while he is speaking," writes Robert A. Barakat in the Journal of Popular Culture, "is tantamount to tying his tongue." To prove his point...
...that had won the long legal battle against Southern school segregation. Primarily concerned with representing black clients and causes, L.D.F. attorneys were well aware that the death penalty was imposed in the South with disproportionate frequency against black men convicted of raping white women, but it was difficult to prove in court. So in the summer of 1965 a group of students was sent South to gather all possible data from the past 20 years on rape sentencing in various counties of eleven states...
According to several environmentalists and scientists, alternatives to the proposed pumped storage plant do exist. Rising construction costs have made the Con Ed plan more and more economically unfeasible, environmentalists argue. They say that other methods of generation, such as gas turbines, would prove to be more satisfactory both economically and ecologically...
ATHLETES ARE SOMETIMES especially wounded by the Harvard environment, Riesman notes. "Many faculty members are antagonistic to athletes," he explained. "Even the successful varsity athlete, especially a football player," often feels "that he must prove that he is not merely an athlete...