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...most patient-friendly method of treating erectile dysfunction," says Dr. Ira Sharlip, assistant clinical professor of urology at the University of California at San Francisco. Although Viagra doesn't work for everyone, it's what most patients want to try first, before turning to such alternatives as injections, vacuum pumps and surgical implants. Perhaps all those unsolicited e-mail come-ons are a small price to pay after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viagra Turns 5 | 1/20/2003 | See Source »

...each two-to three-minute film, Wallace concocts a daft labor-saving robot--meant to serve dinner or overcome a burglar or produce Christmas cards or vacuum up cracker crumbs--while Gromit watches in mute exasperation or buries his snout in a favorite book (one is Men Are from Mars, Dogs Are from Pluto). Something usually goes explosively wrong, but that doesn't dampen either Wallace's enthusiasm or Gromit's obligation to restore the status...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dog Bytes | 1/20/2003 | See Source »

After graduation, Lavietes worked at the family basket factory in Shelton, where he lived for most of his life. He eventually inherited the factory and, over the years, converted it into a toolkit factory and then into a wet/dry vacuum factory...

Author: By Nathaniel A. Smith, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Devoted Basketball Team Fan, Donor Dies at 88 | 1/17/2003 | See Source »

...science circus comes to town when a group like the Raelians claims to be cloning children, announcing one arrival just in time to fill the holiday news vacuum. The news came as a shock but not much of a surprise. It was only a matter of time before one of the teams racing to produce the first human clone either succeeded or just decided to claim it had. Chemist Brigitte Boisselier, president of the biotech company Clonaid, is a member of the Order of Angels of the Raelian religious cult, whose prophet Rael says 4-ft.-tall green space aliens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Abducting The Cloning Debate | 1/13/2003 | See Source »

...baffling the grader or by fencing him but like this: “It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Beating the System | 1/13/2003 | See Source »

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