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...BANNED. DWAIN CHAMBERS, 25, British sprinter and European 100-meter champion, from competition for two years after testing positive for the prohibited steroid THG; in London. Chambers is the first major sports star to be punished in a scandal involving a San Francisco-area laboratory under federal investigation for supplying performance-enhancing drugs to athletes...
...this medium, an "ensemble" piece typically means a bunch of spandex-clad steroid cases teaming up to pound some evil genius with their fists. It can therefore be quite a shock to read a comic about four adult friends who struggle with issues of career, relationships and sobriety. At last, something I can relate to! The second and third issues of Henrik Rehr's "Tuesday" (Kim-Rehr Productions; 24 pp; $2.95), with its group portrait of New York sophisticates, reads like the movie Woody Allen hasn't made in years...
...Democratic candidates have cavorted among the people--and in the process shed the sallow, boring defensiveness of the past three years--the President hasn't been having a very happy winter. His State of the Union speech was eminently forgettable, except, perhaps, for his declaration of war on steroid use by athletes. Iraq remains a mess. Ten more Americans were killed there last week, and eight more in Afghanistan, which makes the President's Merrimack assertion of success in the war on terrorism--"Now we're marching to peace ... now we're secure in the peace"--seem insensitive...
...years I was unaware I was being given a form of steroid of the legal kind they used to give horses, until they decided it was too strong even for horses." John McEnroe, former tennis pro, calling on the Association of Tennis Professionals to crack down on doping...
...says Pfaus, "and you don't restore desire. Give them testosterone alone, and you get a little increase in desire. Give them estrogen and testosterone together, and you get a whopping increase." Why? Some research suggests that testosterone's role in women is diversionary: it attaches to so-called steroid-binding globulins in the blood that would otherwise latch onto estrogen molecules and render them inert. The testosterone is taken away to the liver, while the estrogen is free to make a lust-inducing dash for the brain...