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Schoolteacher Syabusi is an educated man, fully cognizant of the AIDS threat. Yet even he bristles when asked if he uses a condom. "Humph," he says with a fine snort. "That question is nonnegotiable." So despite extensive distribution of free condoms, they often go unused. Astonishing myths have sprung up. If you don one, your erection can't grow. Free condoms must be too cheap to be safe: they have been stored too long, kept too hot, kept too cold. Condoms fill up with germs, so they spread AIDS. Condoms from overseas bring the disease with them. Foreign governments that...
...recent history of K limns a well-established law of recreational drug use: once users find a substance they like, they will snort or shoot or drop whatever version is available, whatever the cost. Which is why you must look to the market to understand the future of drugs used for anything other than doctor-approved healing. That market can be divided into three groups: the partyers, who just want to have fun (and who sometimes become addicts); the shrinks and shamans, who believe drugs can expand your consciousness; and the scientists, who suspect that illegal drugs--or their chemical...
...prepares to shoot a scene in which the Anipals snort a pink cocaine-like substance, Smigel chuckles to himself. "I do feel like I'm devolving a bit as I get older. When I was 25, I was writing sophisticated sketches on SNL. Ever since I started Conan, I've been really silly." And lucky. After The Dana Carvey Show tanked in 1996, Smigel had enough money saved to write only when inspiration struck. He salvaged his Ambiguously Gay Duo cartoon (about a superhero combo that is really close) from Carvey and started making episodes for SNL. That...
They may have lacked a certain something in spontaneity, but last week's presidential and vice-presidential debates did offer some revealing moments. Aside from their tendency to snort and sigh, the men at the top of the ticket also seemed disinclined to yield precious seconds for a mention of their running mates. Let's see if they behave more generously in this week's installment...
Which may be why some in Gore's camp are posing like matadors, waving their red capes in hopes of provoking the other side to snort and charge. "If you are 5 points down with five weeks to go, you have to be aggressive," says one, sounding more hopeful than anxious. But Bush is more likely to try a balanced approach, playing the optimistic, sunny candidate who played to such raves on Regis and Oprah this week while also working hard to raise doubts about Gore's credibility. Last week, under the cover of a heralded shift to policy, Bush...