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...same time, Pfizer hasn't done any testing of the drug on nonimpotent men to prove the point, but it's hard to imagine that biochemical nitpicking is going to stop people from experimenting. Certainly it will be hard for wet blankets and smarty-pants to compete with the siren calls coming out of sex clinics around the country from men "feeling 18 again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Viagra Craze | 5/4/1998 | See Source »

...wherever he finds them, his message is the same as it was a decade ago, when he discovered a 21-year-old gang leader bleeding to death in a dark stairwell from four gunshots to the chest. As the faint siren of the paramedics' vehicle sounded, too far away, Brother Bill spoke softly into the ear of the young man the last words he would hear on this earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In The Line Of Fire | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

...August entered the 55-to-65 age group, which the New York Times recently referred to as "the near elderly" (thanks a lot), and who in December stood in the delivery room and watched her appear, and who now rises from a sound sleep at her siren call, which comes sooner than one expected and is electrifying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: O Baby, Baby | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

Diego draws in a crowd with a melange of calypso and oldies favorites outside Bertucci's, in the heart of Brattle Square. Like a Siren, he lures even the most reluctant pedestrian into a seat on the granite bench in front of him and offers them ready lapse into a summer pace of life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DOWN ON THE CORNER | 4/2/1998 | See Source »

...discernible above the gentle waters of the Susquehanna River. Inside the brightly lit control room of Metropolitan Edison's Unit 2, technicians on the lobster shift one night last week faced a tranquil, even boring watch. Suddenly, at 4 a.m., alarm lights blinked red on their instrument panels. A siren whooped a warning. In the understated jargon of the nuclear power industry, an "event" had occurred. In plain English, it was the beginning of the worst accident in the history of U.S. nuclear power production, and of a long, often confused nightmare that threw the future of the nuclear industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1973-1980 Limits | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

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