] It took a year of testing and tasting to create the
] concoction.
]
] The Nicotini -- in regular and menthol -- was ready for
] routine consumption just as the smoking ban went into
] effect.
]
] "We made an announcement, picked up all the ashtrays and
] said: 'Sorry there's no more smoking, but we have this.'
] And [we] bought everybody in the house a drink," Wald
] said.
]
] The Nicotini is made by soaking tobacco leaves in vodka
] and then adding five different liqueurs to tame the
] tobacco flavor.

You heard it right here and don't forget it. Smokers you have a new source for your buzz. Get them while they last because I'm sure someone somewhere will screw up and they will get outlawed.

TheWBALChannel.com - Health Alert - Florida Bar Concocts Nicotine Drink

Men have eagerly embodied their reputation as the sexually enthusiastic half of the population, and yet this study seems to suggest that women, deep down, are really thirsting for more. But, according to one of the study's coauthors, Northwestern psychology department chairman J. Michael Bailey, the study really just reinforces what we already know: Men are sexually simple, and women are not. "I think it really shows us how much we don't know about women more than it shows us what we do know," he says.

Interesting article about sexuality and the different means of arousal for the various gender roles.

What do women want?

] A 42-year-old Braintree woman gave birth to a baby boy
] while standing on an inbound Red Line train yesterday
] morning, refusing help from stunned passengers who heard
] her moan and seconds later looked down to find her baby
] on the floor.

] After leaving the train and heading for the stairs up to
] the station's main lobby, witnesses said, the placenta
] fell to the platform. Judge turned around, grabbed the
] afterbirth, put it in her shoulder bag, and headed upstairs.

Now that is just wrong. This chick should be put into a psychiatric facility for evalution.

Refusing help, woman gives birth aboard T

Australian scientists have shown that the more men masturbate between the ages of 20 and 50, the less likely they are to develop the disease that kills more than half a million men each year.

Don't let those nuns convince you that it's a sin!

Masturbation Reduces Risk of Prostate Cancer

flynn23 wrote:
] ] The fully-grown flies, as doctors described the
] ] parasites, have been emerging out of Chandan Goswami's
] ] genitals and flying off for more than two weeks now.
]
] OMG!, this is a nightmare come true...

How do you explain that one to a date? Uhhh I have this little fly problem, so don't be surprised if a fly comes out.

RE: 'Fly boy' continues to suffer as doctors struggle

] Even an overweight, out-of-shape body could bring
] millions when broken down to its valuable fluids, tissues
] and germ-fighting antibodies.

] But it does lay to rest the old concept that the human
] body, when broken down to its basic elements, is only
] worth pocket change.

Woohoo big guys count too!

Reuters | Your Body May Be Worth More Than $45 Million

McDonald's is telling its direct suppliers -- those that control all stages of animal production -- to phase out such antibiotics by the end of 2004. Direct suppliers provide most of McDonald's poultry and 20 percent of its meat.

This is definitely the best news I've seen come out of the fast food industry, ever. Premium Salads are a joke, since most of them have more calories and fat than a Big Mac.

For those of you that haven't ever read up on this before, cattle, poultry and pig farmers were looking for a better way to provide growth energy (aka calories) to their livestock, because it would take several years for a calf to get big enough to send to the slaughterhouse. Through research and experimentation, it was discovered that corn was an excellent source of energy, however, the animals couldn't digest it properly. Actually, it would make them sick, so to counteract that effect, livestock are regularly fed antibiotics.

One of the theories regarding antibiotic resistant viruses is based on the fact that the food we consume has already been given antibiotics. It is possible that the virii out there have already mutated to survive the antibiotics given to the livestock.

McDonald's curbs antibiotic use in meat

] The RFSU, which produces condoms and also doubles as a
] national association for sexual information, has
] initiated a safe summer sex campaign that is bound to
] attract attention and controversy. The group urges
] partners to take their sex outside, and provides a guide
] to prominent potential sites for a summer tryst.

Aftenposten Nettutgaven, Local

] SARASOTA -- A 30-year-old Bradenton woman was left brain
] dead and will die after being pummeled in her first
] amateur boxing competition Saturday at Robarts Arena.
]
] Family members said Stacy Young, who entered the Toughman
] Competition thinking it would be fun, would die at
] Bayfront Medical Center early this morning. But doctors
] continue to keep Young on life support as they wait for
] physicians around the country to properly organize and
] harvest her organs.

For all of you that think Toughman competitions are fun. Here is another opinion.

heraldtribune.com: Southwest Florida's Information Leader

] A study published in The Journal of Sexually Transmitted
] Diseases and Aids claims awareness of the risks posed by
] anal sex is ignored in many of the continent's health
] campaigns.
]
] However, HIV experts reject the findings, maintaining
] that vaginal sex is the main route of transmission for
] the Aids virus.
]
] The study by researchers at the University of Tuebingen
] in Germany proposes that anal sex, both heterosexual and
] homosexual, is the second biggest cause of HIV
] transmission in Africa.
]
] They say there is a presumption that anal sex simply does
] not happen in Africa and many educational programmes have
] therefore neglected to cover what they call an
] "embarrassing topic".

First off, it seems odd to hear the phrase 'anal sex' in the news.

But this story really does need more attention than a Beavis-and-Butthead chuckle. In the sidebar, it mentions this fact:

"There are 42 million people in the world living with HIV or Aids. Seventy percent of them are in sub-Saharan Africa, where Aids has already killed more than 14 million people. The overall infection rate in the region has stabilised, but the number of deaths each year is expected to rise further."

14 MILLION. And just under 30m of the 42m with the disease on the entire planet are on one continent. However, if you look at the "Success Story" sidebar, it notes that aggressive safe sex campaigns have lowered the HIV prevalance (in females) in Uganda from 27% in 1992 to 9% in 2000 - so it's not a lost cause. But the current governmental administrations need to understand that these kinds of programs need to be supported in African countries, and not to cut funding to overseas programs because of any pro-life/pro-choice stances. Cutting funding to these programs means that people will die - and that's not very pro-life, is it?

BBC NEWS | World | Africa | Africa 'needs anal sex awareness'