December 2010
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Male Contraception Goes Mainstream →
utnereader:
Fifty years ago, the birth control pill revolutionized contraception—and promptly introduced a host of now-familiar side effects for women, among them decreased libido and increased risk of stroke. That men ought to share the burden is an old argument, one that—until recently—looked unwinnable. Today, however, promising research aimed at creating more convenient and effective...
“I’m fated to deal in mixtures, slumgullions… As soon as I hear a proposition I...”
– Donald Barthelme (via theparisreview)
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“Steiner’s books, which I began to read lying down, made me want to get up....”
– Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift
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“You will find that anything or nothing is sufficient to attract his wandering attention.
You no longer need a good book, which he really likes, to keep him from his prayers or his work or his sleep; a column of advertisements in yesterday’s paper will do. You can make him waste his time not only in conversations he enjoys with people whom he likes, but in conversations with those he...
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“Even with all the distractions of my work and my life,” Woody Allen was quoted...”
– Joan Didion on Woody Allen
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“‘Describe just one of them.’
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– “Welsh Incident,” Robert Graves
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reading about RU-486:
“On October 21, 1988, in response to antiabortion protests and concerns of majority (54.5%) owner Hoechst AG of Germany, Roussel-Uclaf’s executives and board of directors voted 16 to 4 to stop distribution of mifepristone, which they announced on October 26, 1988. Two days later, the French government ordered Roussel-Uclaf to distribute mifepristone in the interests of public health....