THURSDAY,MAY9,2002
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN • 13B
Online pharmacies endanger consumers
Knight Ridder Newspapers
NEW YORK — Highly addictive and potentially dangerous prescription drugs including powerful painkillers and tranquilizers, are being pushed and pedled by scores of Internet pharmacies.
The drugs, like Valium, Viagra, diet pills and steroids, are easily available to online consumers without a physician's examination or prescription.
Although regulatory authorities and law enforcement agencies are alarmed by the growing practice, in many cases they are either powerless or too confused to take action against cyberspace dealers.
Unmarked packages are sent through the mail, and the actual locations of the operations are often disguised and frequently changed, or split among several locations.
For customers, all that's necessary is a credit card, cash or money order for the drugs, along with a convenient online medical questionnaire.
Check off "constant pain" on the questionnaire and Percodan, Percocet, or hydrocordone - all addictive painkillers that can result in death with an overdose are dispensed.
Mark "sexual dysfunction" and Viagra -one of the biggest Internet sellers-is the automatic answer.
One site blatantly advertises that customers will get requested
drugs "even though they may violate the law of your country."
Patronizing the sites, even for legitimate reasons, is dangerous, authorities say. Adulterated drugs, drugs with too much or too little of the active ingredient, drugs that have expired, counterfeit drugs or no drugs at all, are all risks of dealing with the sites, said Tom McGinnis, director of pharmacy affairs for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Meanwhile, the online pharmacy Web sites are elaborately designed,easy to use,easy to find,and often indistinguishable from approved,legitimate sites run by nationally recognized pharmaceutical chains like CVS or Duane Reade.
In many cases, licensed physicians working with the sites theoretically review the online questionnaires before approving the shipments.
The Internet pharmacy business began to expand four years ago, with Viagra the lead seller.
Three years ago, there were congressional hearings and alarming testimony, but no laws were enacted.
Pharmacies and physicians are regulated by individual state agencies and several states either barred professionals from participating in the "no examination, no conventional prescription" business or condemned the practice.
Friends support suspect as thefts are investigated
The Associated Press
DALLAS — Andrew Hicken seemed like the typical Southern Methodist University student, living in the dorm with a roommate and partying at frat houses.
It wasn't until police investigated a series of fires and thefts at Shuttles Hall that they discovered Hicken wasn't a student. Instead of going to class, Hicken who has an extensive criminal record, sometimes went to a job remodeling kitchens.
Justin Briggs, 19, of Tulsa, who shared his room with Hicken. "You walk into any frat house and show his picture, and everyone will say, 'Hey, that's Andy. He's cool."
Although Hicken, 22, denies setting the fires and stealing from those he calls his friends, SMU police say his nonstudent status, an outstanding burglary warrant and past arrests quickly made him a suspect.
Hicken moved into Shuttles Hall in mid-February. SMU police
said Hicken's uncle made him move out because he was a bad influence on the uncle's children.
Briggs said he had an extra bed in his room because his roommate had moved out after the first semester. He said he thought that he could trust Hicken and that he wanted to help because he seemed to be down on his luck.
Thefts from unlocked rooms in Shuttles Hall increased not long after Hicken moved into the dorm, police records show. Before that, the most common problem reported in the dorm was students and staff getting stuck in the elevator.
Hicken was arrested in Utah on charges of using a weapon in a fight, receiving stolen property, burglary and burglary of a vehicle, according to records. He says he served some time in Utah, but adds that the arrests, all in 1998, were "dumb kid stuff."
Despite his criminal history and recent allegations, Hicken's dorm mates are standing up for him and
sav thev want to remain friends.
Several students — even freshman Tarryn Moodley of Houston, whose laptop was stolen — pitched in to raise $600 to pay a bondsman last month before learning that Hicken was being held without bail.
"He would have done the same for us," said Moodley, 19. "Everyone has things from their past. You can't judge a person by their past. You have to go on who they are now and who they'll be in the future."
The university has forbidden Briggs from living on campus next year. School policy states that residents can have a guest only three nights of the week unless approved by the roommate and hall director.
The fires that aroused suspicion about Hicken were extinguished before firefighters arrived April 9. Papers hanging on doors and bulletin boards were set on fire in three areas of the dorm.
SMU police arrested Hicken on April 11 on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in connection with the fires. He was held in the Dallas County Jail, but because SMU police did not file formal charges within 72 hours, he was released to authorities in Franklin County.
The Sheriff's Department there said Hicken was wanted in connection with the theft of a laptop computer and $1,000 from a doctor's office. A Franklin County deputy said the computer was recovered at a Greenville Avenue pawnshop.
His friends from SMU were planning to buy back the computer, but Hicken was arrested, Briggs said.
The computer, he said, belonged to Hicken and was not stolen.
Hicken has been given a criminal trespass warning and has been told to stay off campus, Capt. Snellgrove said.
Old Spice takes on towelettes
After nearly three weeks behind bars in Franklin County, where he was charged with burglary, Hicken was released on bond Thursday afternoon.
By Lenore Skenazy New York Daily News
Old Spice.
Just the name conjures up masculinity. Kinda . older masculinity. Maybe even grizzled.
Maybe even dead.
But no, turns out the 64-year-old aftershave and cologne is still the country's best-selling fragrance, and has been since its debut in 1938.
"It is the No. 1 selling fragrance in history," says Derek Bowen, Old Spice brand manager at Procter & Gamble. And now this venerable product is poised to conquer a whole new generation of red-blooded American males.
With wipies.
except thicker, quilted and impregnated (as it were) with masculine scents such as Old Spice Mountain Rush, Pure Sport and Fresh.
Towelettes. Wet naps. The kind of swabs you used to get with Kentucky Fried Chicken,
Somewhere, the ancient mariner is weeping — and so is the marlin on his wall.
While one can only respect a brand that has clearly captured, if not the American imagination, at least the American man from his Adam's apple up, there is something perverse about encouraging guys to start swabbing themselves sweet between showers. Between rest stops!
Could Jack Kerouac have hit the road tooting a tub of tow-lettes? Could Jack Nicholson?
Most men come equipped with sleeves, and that's sweat control aplenty. Can it be Procter & Gamble has never heard of pheromones, those hormones
that holler, "I'm male, I'm available and I'm close by — just ask your nose!"
Wines wine all that out
"Real men should not be 'freshening' themselves with perfumed wipies," fumes Scott Hildula, a dad in San Francisco. "In my day, you wore a circle in your wallet with a rolled up condom and a ring in your jeans from a can of snuff! I pity the sorry wimp who wears a hole in his pants pocket — probably Dockers — with a little perfumed packet."
Chris McLemore in Kansas is even more disturbed by the development.
“It's an encroachment on manhood,” he says. "The Old Spice audience is the hard-core, open-a-beer-with-your-eyesocket crowd. They wouldn't be caught dead with a fancied-up
towelette. It's like making A-1 Steak Sauce pink, or emblazoning the side of John Deere riding mowers with images of the Powerpuff Girls."
But over at Procter & Gamble, Bowen insists that so-called Cool Contact Refreshment Towelettes are something men have been clamoring for.
"Guys were looking for a way to better manage their sweat," says the Old Spice peddler. "Because actually, guys produce more sweat on their foreheads, backs and back of neck than they do in their underarms."
Whoa. I guess that's something I'd sort of suspected all along but never really researched. Now that somebody at P&G obviously has, we are all about to be re-educated about the sweating habits of the human male.
Christian band releases album
Knight Ridder Newspapers
On their new album, Obvious, the members of Plus One get down to brass tacks.
"The second album sounds a little more aggressive," said 20-year-old Nate Cole. "A little more grown up maybe."
Named 2001's New Artist of the Year by the Gospel Music Association, the boys have amped things up for their sophomore release — saying so long to super-slick pop and hello to guitar-driven melodies.
Plus One is made up of Cole, Nathan Walters, Gabe Combs, Jeremy Mhire and Jason Perry.
The Christian-music equivalent of the Backstreet Boys, the group caught fire two years ago with its debut CD, The Promise — an upbeat, harmonious joy
ride through faith, styled for the crowd who digs Backstreet,
'N'Sync and Britnev Spears.
With such sing-along tracks as "Written on my Heart," the album got lots of radio play. But Cole said the group's new release was more reflective of who the band really is: a crew of five young men who face the same problems their peers do.
He and other Plus One members wrote 10 of the 12 tracks while touring for their first album.
"We were learning as far as lyrically, that we really had a lot to say in our hearts," Cole said. "And it's good to be able to release some of that."
Taking a more direct approach to faith, "Obvious tackles specific issues that young adults deal with every day, such as the problem with gossip, not being overly
preach about one's beliefs and hypocrisy in the church.
The song "Start to Fly" finds the boys talking about the necessity of looking past the failings of people toward the love of God.
Cole said the band included the song after meeting people in the music industry who confessed that they had been burned by religion and were bitter about the experience.
"They are professing to be Christians," he said. "But in some ways they're just not down with the church thing because someone was hypocritical."
The musical change-up also prompted Plus One to tweak its stage show a bit, simplifying the hip-hop-inspired choreography of their last tour.
“It's a little more theatrical and not so intricate,” Cole said.
1st Person
Al Pacino
An intense, flamboyant actor who has played a wide range of roles in dozens of films, he will be remembered most for one immortal character his portrayal of the Mafia boss Don Michael Corleone.
Vital statistics
Born: April 25,1940, in New York City
Parents: Abandoned by father; raised by mother and her Sicilian parents in tough East Harlem neighborhood.
raised by mother and
her Sicilian parents in tough
East Harlem neighborhood
School: New York's famous
High School for Performing Arts
Training: Herbert Berghof
Training: Herbert Bergholm Studio and Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio. New York City
Children: Had daughter with acting teacher Jan Tarrant and twins with actress Beverly D'Angelo
Did you know?
Early mentor: Actor Charles Laughton, who was 40 years his senior.
**Apprentice:** Progressed from bit parts to award-winning Broadway leads
'Method acting': Learned to immerse himself in a role, becoming the character, at Actors Studio
First movie lead: Played a heroin addict in "Panic in Needle Park" (1971)
Historic role: his miafoss boss in "The
Godfather" and *sequels* (1972, 74~90)
Cushman and Sequeen (92, 94-53)
Family honor: In "Two Bits," 1995 movie about Great Depression, played character based on his late grandfather
Big line: Trying to escape the Mafia, he moans dramatically, "Just when I think I'm they keep pulling me back in!"
Source: Columbia Encyclopedia, A&E Television Networks, KRT Photo Service
Graphic: Tim Gheen
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