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Wondering why you couldn't get tickets to The Vagina Monologues? Saturday's talented cast performed as part of the National V-Day College Initiative, which limited each campus to one performance, according to co-director Debby A. Rin '01. Since the show sold out before intersession, clearly there was demand for more, but a contract is a contract in show business. For those of us who planned ahead and braved the cold in formal wear, it was worth it; for everyone else, Rin suggests there is a local professional cast who can help your vagina know what to wear...

Author: By Adam I. Arenson, | Title: Columnist Outtakes | 2/23/2001 | See Source »

What he likes best is dry sex. In parts of sub-Saharan Africa, to please men, women sit in basins of bleach or saltwater or stuff astringent herbs, tobacco or fertilizer inside their vagina. The tissue of the lining swells up and natural lubricants dry out. The resulting dry sex is painful and dangerous for women. The drying agents suppress natural bacteria, and friction easily lacerates the tender walls of the vagina. Dry sex increases the risk of HIV infection for women, already two times as likely as men to contract the virus from a single encounter. The women, adds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death Stalks A Continent | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

Next, she takes the RU-486 pill orally under the supervision of medical personnel. Forty-eight hours later, she inserts small tablets of misopristol into her vagina...

Author: By Heather B. Long, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: UHS Approves Abortion Pill | 2/7/2001 | See Source »

With this pre-RU-486 method, methotrexate was administered through an injection in the thigh and the patient deposited misopristol tablets into the vagina 48 hours later, inducing a miscarriage...

Author: By Heather B. Long, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: UHS Approves Abortion Pill | 2/7/2001 | See Source »

...medication deep enough into the lungs to be effectively absorbed. Among the drugs that researchers hope will be administered with the new inhalers are antibiotics, insulin and interferon. Other new systems enable doctors to apply drugs through the eyes or through the mucous linings of the nose, mouth and vagina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beyond Needles And Pills | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

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