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Rhodes now takes on what many readers will consider the untouchable: a no- holds-barred account of his sex life from earliest masturbations to strenuous exertions in pursuit of his fantasy, "a young woman drunk with sensation, overstimulated, perpetually orgasmic...
...former communist countries in the East. And the anger will not soon subside. Other unions, in the metal, printing and construction trades, will ride the wave of discontent to demand similar increases to offset tax hikes linked to German unification. They probably will win pay raises too, despite the strenuous objections of industrial leaders who predict falling exports and vanishing jobs as a result...
Would-be reformers are also pushing the FDA to adopt a more strenuous review of drugs after they have been approved for marketing. Such postapproval monitoring is already being tried in Canada, Britain and Sweden, where officials can tap into data from a national health-care system. The reasoning behind the push is quite straightforward. Clinical trials typically include a few thousand people and can therefore pick up only the most obvious and prevalent side effects. Once a drug enters the market, hundreds of thousands or even millions of people start using it, often for sustained periods of time -- when...
...zeal, spent a month interviewing Ted Turner's family, friends and associates. "I discovered that there was something new to say about him," says Painton. "He is a changed man not just because he fell madly in love or because he got older, but because he made an emotionally strenuous effort to grow up. There are no trophies in his office commemorating this adventure, but it may be the most courageous...
...unusual to schedule high school track and football practice at night after the evening cool dispels the pollution. Glendora, a middle-class town in the San Gabriel Valley, at times has visibility of scarcely a quarter-mile and last year experienced 28 Stage-1 smog alerts, when any strenuous exercise is judged unhealthy. That is actually an improvement over the late '80s, owing to a combination of strict emission limits and still mysterious climatic trends, but the Los Angeles Basin's smog remains the worst in the country. Said Glendora football coach Dean Karnoski last month as he installed...