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...literary definitions. Whether the killing of animals can be called murder or not does not change the fact that the lives of the animals are being taken from them, and that the motivations for this killing (and the mistreatment which frequently precedes it) arises quite often from the moral vacuum of purely economic considerations rather than from real necessity...
What this tale of triumphant personal policymaking leaves out is the fact that it could have occurred only in a vacuum. Richard Nixon had little interest in domestic affairs; the country, he once told Teddy White, "could run itself." Under a President as concerned with social issues as with the Sino-Soviet balance of power, all the holdovers in the world would have had little effect...
...them can lead to the buildup of harmful deposits in the arteries. The other cholesterol carriers, known as HDLs (for high-density lipoproteins), are considered "good" because, far from being killers, they may actually play a vital role in preventing heart disease. They seem to act like biological vacuum cleaners, sucking up excess cholesterol in the bloodstream. It is because the 50-odd Cincinnati families possess unusually high levels of HDL that they are believed to have such a resilient blood chemistry -- and such long lives...
...Researchers have developed a vacuum device that produces an erection. The penis is sheathed in an acrylic tube, and a hand pump is used to force out air from around the penis. The resulting vacuum draws blood into the penis until it becomes rigid. Rubber bands are then slipped onto the base of the penis to keep the blood from escaping; the bands can be left in place safely for half an hour. The vacuum machine costs about $450. Urologist Perry Nadig of San Antonio has followed 340 of his patients who have used the device, some for as long...
Many of the therapies still have drawbacks. After all, resorting to injections or using a vacuum machine can take some of the spontaneity out of sex. So researchers are experimenting with more sophisticated techniques: a pacemaker-like device to stimulate the nerves that initiate an erection and new drug-delivery systems that use long-term skin patches to replace frequent injections. Now that doctors have found ways to treat impotence, the goal is to make the remedies seem less intrusive and more natural...