Word: treating
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...Frederik van Zyl, a successful building contractor: "I don't want blacks to take over South Africa, but I don't like the way that people treat the blacks either. I pay my boys well, and they like working for me. But hell, % man, I wouldn't want to live next door to them. Still, when I go to football matches at Rand Stadium, I realize how many of them there are and that we have to make a deal with them in order to survive...
Doctors warn that it is not an aphrodisiac or a "sex pill." But a drug developed by Burroughs Wellcome to treat depression does have an interesting side effect: it increases sexual desire. Of 60 test subjects who took Wellbutrin at San Diego's Crenshaw Clinic, 63% had heightened libidos, a study reports this week. The effects of the drug, which is not on the market, were felt only by the sexually dysfunctional and were not always welcome. "One woman was orgasmic for the first time," says Researcher Theresa Crenshaw. "She said she was assailed by sexual feelings...
While animal-rights advocates concede that conventional animal breeding has produced sickly misfits, they fear that genetic engineering will inflict greater suffering and disability. "Researchers are creating new disease complexes that I certainly couldn't treat," says Veterinarian Fox. He objects to another area of genetic engineering: the development of animals that suffer from human diseases like muscular dystrophy. Yet such creatures would be invaluable in testing new drugs for humans...
...foot warmers and vaginal specula are warmed. The clinic at Georgia Baptist Medical Center in Atlanta even offers a small gym and Tupperware-like health parties at which women get to throw questions at a physician. Above all, the centers claim that their largely female staffs are able to treat women without the impersonality and condescension of traditional practices...
Comedy of Errors isn't exactly highbrow theater, and the Quincy House crew is wise not to treat it as such. But it is a lot of fun, a pleasant and entertaining hour-and-a-half spent with the Bard. Happy Birthday, Bill...