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Viagra users are only getting younger. Five years ago, the typical patient was a married man in his 60s. Nowadays, he's still married but more likely to be in his 50s. One trend that has started to worry public-health officials, however, is the growing recreational use of Viagra in some settings. Gay men seem to be at the vanguard of this trend. Viagra, often in combination with illegal drugs like ecstasy, enables patrons of sex clubs to have sex with more partners, which increases their risk of contracting sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) like syphilis and aids...
Virtually all the punks in the City of God hood are teenage or younger. To be older is to be dead--killed for any reason or none, by rivals or the horde of infant pretenders. A kind of Menudo Mean Streets, Fernando Meirelles' fact-based epic zigzags through the stories of a dozen hoodlums and 20 years of carnage. The only thing worse than the sadistic glee with which Ze (Leandro Firmino da Hora) runs the town is the veneration he gets from kids who confuse machismo with maturity. "I smoke and snort," one tyro terrorist says. "I've killed...
...moral queasiness, as one gang is wiped out and a still younger one rises to claim the spoils. You wonder if the next generation of Li'l Zes will pop out of their mothers' wombs, guns blazing, ready to take over. --By Richard Corliss
Democrats smell a trap. A campaign against Pickering would consume the resources of liberal lobbying groups and the political capital of Democrats in the Senate. That might give Bush an easier time getting confirmation for other nominees--equally conservative but younger judges, who would probably be on the bench much longer than Pickering, 65. "We need to be careful that we don't become too hysterical about one choice," says Democratic Senator Jon Corzine. --By Douglas Waller
...Behind South Korea's newfound assertiveness is a younger generation of Koreans who have never experienced war. Affluent, confident and scornful of the anti-communist ideology from decades past, they feel a sentimental bond with Koreans on the other side of the barbed wire. Of course, there are plenty of South Koreans who still see the North as a threat. "We have gone too far," says Lee Dong Kwan, associate editor of the daily Dong-A Ilbo. And on Saturday, some 30,000 demonstrators rallied in Seoul to show support for the U.S. military presence in the South...