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...help for the British, as one anecdote tellingly reveals: when he took the British viceroy of India out on tiger hunts, the maharaja of Gwalior measured the animals shot by his guest "with a special tape that had eleven inches to a foot," so that the Englishman would never suffer the ignominy of having bagged the smaller tiger...
Most Angelenos have quickly warmed to their new police chief, and his campaign against gangsters has received widespread support, particularly from the black and Latino communities, which suffer disproportionately from Los Angeles' high murder rate. "He has enormous charisma, and his public articulation of the relation of policing to crime is brilliant," says Eric Monkkonen, professor of policy studies at UCLA...
...issues covered in this special issue of TIME, this one may be the most controversial: Is there really a need for an orgasm-promoting drug for women? The drug companies like to cite a study suggesting that 43% of American women suffer from FSD, which would make the disorder more than 10 times as prevalent as breast cancer or AIDS, though surely a bit more bearable. But critics point out that in the study, women were judged to have FSD for answering yes to any one of seven questions, such as whether they had experienced difficulty with lubrication or sometimes...
Maybe that's just as well. For those who suffer from a lack of interest in sex, like Roslyn Washington, it's great to have a treatment that works. But like the women in the testosterone study who responded to a placebo showed, the real point is to create a sex life that works. Feeling is believing, and vice versa. We experience attraction and sexual desire as a sort of magic, a phenomenon filled with delightful mystery. And if scientists continue to be overwhelmed by the complex interplay of dozens of substances percolating from mind to body and back, that...
...aside that fear, and behind it lies at least one reason for optimism. If the Lehigh Valley never sees the rise of another Bethlehem Steel, it will also never suffer such a fall. "That world is gone," says Mary Deily, a professor of economics at Lehigh University who has studied the decline of Big Steel. Today the failure of a big manufacturer in the region "is not going to be as devastating," she says. In this new world, office-supply makers apply for patents, better processes can trump cheaper products, and the most valuable raw material is an educated worker...