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The Food and Drug Administration today approved a drug designed to boost sexual desire in women. The drug, flibanserin (brand name: Addyi), is made by Sprout Pharmaceuticals and works by regulating serotonin in the brain, much like selective serotonin uptake inhibitors (SSRIs). Although flibanserin is being widely referred to in the press as a “female […]
Words are the building blocks of communications. Effective communications requires a mastery at the usage of words, understanding their meanings and properly utilizing them to construct the intended message to be conveyed. The increasingly prominent appearance of political correctness as a restraint on the freedom of speech imposes not only restrictions on our linguistic freedom […]
The recent revelation that the NFL’s James Harrison is returning all of his sons’ trophies received for participation in various sporting events is a magnificent example of one that understands the value of participation and the results of competition. Ever since the most ancient Olympic games in Greece, the winners were awarded symbols of accolades […]
“There are old pilots and bold pilots, but there are no old, bold pilots,” E. Hamilton Lee — 1949. Most pilots agree that this is good advice—especially those engaged in the more dangerous activities like fighter pilots and test pilots. But Mick Greene was not like most pilots. Far from it. In his new autography, […]
Jonathan Raab is the author of the military fiction novel, Flight of the Blue Falcon. It’s an absurd, tragic, and honest look at wartime service in the National Guard during the Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts. He is also the author of the upcoming The Hillbilly Moonshine Massacre (due out October 2015 from Literati Press), a […]
On a bright spring afternoon many years ago, Sophia Bar-Lev‘s 5th grade teacher asked her what she wanted to be when she grew up. Without hesitation, Sophia answered, “I want to write books – lots of them.” Busy for a number of years with raising a family and teaching school, in more recent years she […]
Maybe you don’t mind the ads for that bicycle rack following you around in cyberspace after you visited a site for all things bike, but browser trackers (“cookies”) also create a profile of you that gets sold to other advertisers and third parties. Are you doomed to be stalked forever by bike ads? This is […]
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