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Urge

The Date Doctor is in! A new romance service offers professional daters who will chat, flirt and tear you apart for a fee.
By Denise Dowling [11/06/99]
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Susie Bright

Party of three I loved being shared by two men, but unlike today's polyamorists, my guys couldn't swing it.
By Susie Bright [11/13/99]
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Nancy Chan: Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl

Episode 38 Caught between Milt's lips and a hard Matt: No one trusts me anymore, not even the people I'm not lying to.
By Tracy Quan
[11/22/99]
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Mary Roach

I was a human crash-test dummy For 15 years, a professor gave his body for human impact-survival research -- and lived to tell the tale.
[11/19/99]
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Ask Dr. Bob

Docs who lie and the patients who thank them
By Robert Burton, M.D.[11/01/99]
Dr. Robert Burton, who is a neurologist and novelist, answers health questions every other Monday in Salon Health & Body. Please e-mail your queries to him at info@salon1999.com.

Wednesday, Nov. 24, 1999

A tale of two marathons The Fat Guy snacks his way through the New York City Marathon.
By Steven A. Shaw [11/24/99]
The randy bellboy A member of the night shift offers seduction tips to the lonely traveler.
By Susie Bright [11/24/99]
Urge: Naked World The rise and fall of German horndogs: Stiff Viagra-loving Germans are popping and dropping dead in Thai brothels.
By Hank Hyena [11/22/99 - 11/26/99]

Elsewhere in Salon today
"My Kitchen Wars" by Betty Fussell The cookbook author recounts the battles that made up her marriage.
By Pete Wells [Books - 11/24/99]

Gingrich vs. Gingrich Why has the former speaker of the House chosen to let his dirty linen be brought out for all to see?
By David Corn [News - 11/24/99]

Illustration by Caterina Fake/Salon.com

Editor's Pick
A terrible thing to waste You do not need brains to go to the Harvard Brain Bank, only a brain.
By Mary Roach [10/24/99]

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Recently in Salon Health & Body
Urge: Not this year, dear I have very little interest in sex -- and neither do millions of other Americans. So where are our support groups?
By Sandy Morris [11/23/99]
Flu be gone! Two new anti-flu drugs just hit the market and will be backed by millions in advertising. But do they work?
By Arthur Allen [11/22/99]
Urge: Ex change My ex-boyfriend called me with big news. Seems he wasn't quite my ex-boyfriend anymore.
By Sarah Gold [11/20/99]
'Roid rage Steroid abuse can cause everything from sexual voracity to violence; some people take them only for cosmetic reasons.
By Andrew Taber [11/18/99]
Brave new world or future shock? Medical scientists predict technologies such as animal-to-human organ transplants and toilets that send info to your doctor.
By Jon Bowen [11/17/99]
Urge: Playing prostitute Divorcée Pam takes the leap into the life and learns that besting her johns is a hollow victory.
By Virginia Vitzthum [11/16/99]
Tell me where it hurts Is it ethical for a doctor-turned-writer to use his patients for material?
By Amy O'Connor [11/15/99]
Health Log: Letting docs decide UnitedHealth Group will give doctors outright control over patient care, making the HMO attractive to the 8 million government employees now eligible for open enrollment.
By David McGuire [11/12/99]
Hair today, gone tomorrow Bald men may be ensuring the survival of the species. Now some scientists are saying that they may have found a cure for it.
By Cary Tennis [11/12/99]
Health Log: No littering Fertility experts urged to reduce number of embryos implanted
By Arthur Allen [11/12/99]
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More than 50 million people have been infected with the HIV virus worldwide with 16 million deaths, say the U.N. and World Health Organization.

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