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...scientifically subtle about these drugs: they squash testosterone levels and therefore suppress sexual hunger. (High, long-term doses of the drugs are known as "chemical castration," a misnomer because sex drive returns if the injections stop.) But together, drugs and counseling can be effective. Contrary to popular perception, a raft of studies has shown that once in treatment, few pedophiles relapse. In 1991 the American Journal of Forensic Psychiatry published a study of 400 of Berlin's patients; only 1.2% of those who had complied with his 2 1/2-year treatment were known to have molested kids again three years after...
...Chris Steak House; in New Orleans. Fertel got her start in 1965 when she mortgaged her house to purchase a local Louisiana restaurant called Chris Steak House, advertised in a newspaper classified ad by then owner Chris Matulich. DIED. THOR HEYERDAHL, 87, Norwegian explorer whose transoceanic expeditions on primitive rafts earned him worldwide acclaim; in Colla Micheri, Italy. Kon-Tiki, Heyerdahl's 1948 account of his 7,000-km Pacific voyage on a balsa wood raft, was translated into 66 languages, and his contribution to theories of intercontinental migration remains influential today. ARRESTED. ROBERT BLAKE, 68, former child actor...
...generated headlines for waking up hazed and dazed in the ER--if they woke up at all. In recent years, however, some colleges have found a new cause for concern: young women who drink as dangerously as, if not more so than, their male classmates. This development invites a raft of knotty questions. Why are today's girls and young women, who are also getting arrested more and doing more drugs, behaving more like boys in so many reckless ways? Do they simply feel freer to be themselves? Or does the sassy, self-confident girl-power generation feel it must...
Detractors say Fox owes its success to conservative viewers drawn by rightist-skewed news. Fox says it simply provides a "fair and balanced" alternative to liberal-media bias. Either way, it would be naive not to see that the channel, home to a raft of conservative personalities like Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly, is a comfortable home for right-of-center viewers. But while it is tempting to see Fox's success in red America-vs.-blue America terms (i.e., Bush regions vs. Gore regions), there is as much a cultural as a political divide, manifest as much...
Major General William F. Garrison (played in the movie by playwright Sam Shepard) was three weeks past the deadline Washington had set for completing that task when he got solid intelligence that two Habr Gadir "Tier One Personalities" and a raft of smaller fry were meeting near the Bakhara Market in "Mog." He ordered a midafternoon assault--Delta Force troops roping down out of helicopters to make the grab, Rangers securing a perimeter around the building. The captives would then be loaded into an armored convoy and taken back to the airfield headquarters...