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...rates with the drug, with a third of the abusers dying from it. The small pool of non-professionals fare worse. "I've never found a non-medical person abusing this drug that has ever lived," says Wischmeyer. Propofol's potency leaves very little margin for mistakes. "The terrifying thing about this drug is that it might take your stress away, but if you take one or two cc's more, you stop breathing," says Wischmeyer. "This is not like Vicodin - take too much and you get a little high. With propofol, you might not survive...
...administered by a needle. While Hollywood's troubled abusers have yet to start showing up at his doors with propofol problems, he doesn't rule it out. "Whenever a drug gets attention like this in the media, people want to try it," says Sack. "It takes a while for things to break out. Sometimes they never do. But there are always people who abuse drugs who are looking for the next big thing...
...fertility clinics only when women seek help because of their inability to become pregnant. "If this girl turns out to have AIS, it's not her fault," he says. "As those with AIS often are, she was brought up as a girl by her parents, which was the right thing to do." (See TIME's top 10 moments from the Beijing Olympics...
...sick of waiting," said Phyllis Lingley, 83, who has been living in the Charlesview apartments for 40 years. "This has been going on for years, and we haven't seen a damn thing built...
...meet with representatives of Britain and the U.S. next week to discuss what remains to be done in order to have the sanctions lifted. Even though Libya has the backing of the Arab League in demanding an immediate end to sanctions, don't expect any movement soon. For one thing, the Libyans want to wait until Megrahi's appeal is over before considering compensation - and that'll be just fine with the West. Ghaddafi's neighbors may begin simply ignoring sanctions as they have been doing with Iraq, but it could still be years before the West lifts its embargo...