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...achieve erection and, not coincidentally, continues to generate a torrent of Internet spam. Hard to believe it has been almost five years since Viagra was approved by the Food and Drug Administration. In that time early fears that the drug might cause nerve damage to the eye or directly trigger cardiac deaths have been laid to rest, while its status as a cultural phenomenon has grown. (The pill has an entry in the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary...
TODAY'S TREATMENTS Electroshock therapy, despite its unsavory reputation, is actually quite effective, especially for patients who don't respond to drugs and seniors for whom drug interactions pose problems. The treatment today uses a small current to trigger a mild seizure--a rhythmic firing of neurons--that can push a depressed brain...
...like last week's, and that he planned - in keeping with the earlier Security Council resolution that created UNMOVIC and mandated quarterly reports - to present the Council with a comprehensive report, including a "work plan" for Iraqi disarmament, toward the end of March. With January 27 no longer a trigger date, Blix, supported by the European Union, appears to be suggesting a two-month (and possibly longer) postponement in formulating any kind of conclusion. And chief nuclear inspector Mohammed El-Baradei has suggested that it may take his team another year to finish their...
...take out North Korea's key nuclear-production sites. Pentagon officials say the plan has recently been reviewed and modified, but few believe any American President would ever authorize it. An attack on Pyongyang's nuclear facilities could spread lethal radiation over China, Japan and South Korea and trigger a hellacious North Korean counterattack. The regime boasts a standing army of 1 million troops--the world's fourth largest--with an estimated 4.7 million more in reserve. It also keeps a massive store of artillery shells and hundreds of Scud missiles that it could load with biological and chemical agents...
...particular can mimic the characteristics of explosives in the EDS machines); putting shoes on top so that they can be removed and searched easily; spreading books out and not stacking them on top of one another (stacked books are too dense for the EDS to "see" through and might trigger an alert); and putting all sharp items in a checked bag, not a carry...