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...leaves you tan and sexually excited, and it works for both men and women. No, it's not a tropical vacation; it's the Barbie drug, as some have dubbed Melanotan II. Researchers looking for a sunless way to trigger tanning came across the compound in 1991. Men who took the drug got tan and reported side effects in their shorts. Later tests on lab rats showed that, unlike Viagra, this miracle pill was not just for males: female lab rats that took it showed more courting behavior. The reason: Melanotan works on the brain center that handles sexual arousal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot For The Barbie Drug | 8/26/2002 | See Source »

...gnats fly up in a dense cloud as Jamil Bakr, 35, tends the fine, tan sardine nets on the Princess Siham. He has worked 20 years on the sea that has sustained his family for generations. "I'm like the fish," he says. "I can't leave the sea." But he is a fish with almost no water. Israeli restrictions on the movement of Palestinian boats have made fishing sometimes dangerous and almost always unprofitable. Before the intifadeh, Gaza Strip fishermen brought in $40 million of fish annually; last year the catch was worth $28 million. The figure is likely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Palestinians: Where To Now? | 8/19/2002 | See Source »

Singaporean Hwee Hwee Tan is the author of novels Foreign Bodies and Mammon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing Against Type | 8/11/2002 | See Source »

Meanwhile, at 52 Springsteen still looks as if he just strolled off the cover of Born in the U.S.A. As E Street Band member No. 9 in a black sleeveless undershirt and tan work pants, he moves across the stage like a camp counselor, all energy and encouragement as the group struggles to get the new songs down: "I know this stuff is hard. Don't worry; we'll get it, and it's gonna be fabulous! Now what we're gonna do this time..." During a break, Springsteen bounds out into the house seats. He thinks the pace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bruce Rising | 8/5/2002 | See Source »

...government concentrator living in Winthrop House. When she is not riding the bus in Chicago, she has stints as an intern at a talent agency in downtown Chicago and as a caddie for the 5th year in the western suburbs where she is feverishly working on her farmer tan...

Author: By Maria S. Pedroza, | Title: Big Shoulders | 7/19/2002 | See Source »

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