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Breast Implants for Men — What’s Up with That?

October 13th, 2004 at 11:29 pm » Comments (0)

Breast implants are becoming more and more popular with a surprising group of Shanghai citizens — men.



Creating the Swinger Hotel

October 13th, 2004 at 11:23 pm » Comments (0)

A hotel for swingers is so successful the owner plans to open a chain.



Click Fraud Threatens the Web

October 13th, 2004 at 11:15 pm » Comments (0)

Adam Penenberg: The Federal Trade Commission believes that no place is more fraud-friendly than the web. The agency estimates that more than one in 10 Americans (perhaps as many as 30 million people in this country) have fallen victim to fraud. Last year, internet-related fraud complaints surpassed all others, comprising 55 percent of all […]



Harvard to Clone Human Embryos

October 13th, 2004 at 11:08 pm » Comments (0)

Harvard researchers want to be the first in the United States to produce cloned human embryos for disease research.



Face ‘Rebuilding’ with Skin Graft

October 13th, 2004 at 11:01 pm » Comments (0)

For the first time, plastic surgeons have reconstructed a burn victim’s entire face using a single sheet of thick skin harvested from his back. Unlike after conventional multiple grafts, the patient’s lips and eyes opened and closed properly and his skin looked smoother and more natural.

You need to see these before and after photos.



Sniffing out the Cyber Hannibals

October 13th, 2004 at 10:50 pm » Comments (0)

“Hannibal Lecter would make a great colleague if he didn’t have that nasty habit of eating people,” says Max Kilger, social psychologist for the Honeynet Project.



New Fertility Boost

October 13th, 2004 at 10:42 pm » Comments (0)

A leading fertility researcher has announced that a 43-year-old patient of his got her reproductive system to behave like that of a 25-year-old.



Father Wanted to Name Son ‘@’

October 13th, 2004 at 12:41 am » Comments (0)

A father in central China has been refused permission to name his son ‘@’.



Double Jeopardy at the ‘Couples Massage’

October 13th, 2004 at 12:33 am » Comments (0)

W. Bruce Cameron: I calculated once that my business cards cost me about 8 cents apiece, which means that after tossing them into the “free drawing” box at restaurants over the past two decades, it cost me $1,600 to finally win something: a massage from the hotel where I’d eaten.