| November 17, 2003 | - American Roman Catholic bishops embarked on a new campaign against contraception. "The Church teaches us a lot of things we don't practice," said Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver. "But it's the constant of the Roman Catholic Church that contraception is wrong, sinful, and contrary to the meaning of married life."
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| November 8, 2003 | -
Prince Charles denied the latest rumor about his sexual proclivities but failed to mention what he was accused of doing. Newspapers in Britain, where libel laws are very strong, have been unable to print the substance of the rumor, though they have repeatedly run the same photograph of Prince Charles standing alone in a field with another man.
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New York Times
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| October 23, 2003 | - Six English schoolboys were hospitalized after it was learned they had taken Viagra during lunch; "by the the time the afternoon lessons began," said a source, "there was no hiding what they had done."
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Reuters
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| January 29, 2002 | -
A Colombian presidential candidate was handing out samples of Viagra to voters. “We want our votes to dose Colombia with Viagra,” Ingred Betancourt explained, “to lift and to firm up the country, make peace swell, by standing up to the corrupt and stiffening our people.”
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| December 11, 2001 | -
Chinese zoos were planning to give Viagra to some endangered impotent tigers; “cage life” was blamed for their condition.
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| October 2, 2001 | -
British
scientists revealed that Viagra makes men breathe easier at high altitudes.
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| July 31, 2001 | - Earth Wind & Fire was launching a new tour sponsored by Viagra.
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| July 17, 2001 | - A judge in California ruled that Kaiser-Permanente, a health-maintenance organization, did not have to cover prescriptions for Viagra, the popular anti-impotence drug.
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| June 26, 2001 | - Ireland banned the use of Viagra to enhance the performance of greyhounds.
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| April 10, 2001 | -
Israeli
religious leaders declared that Viagra was not kosher for Passover, though a rabbi can authorize its use “in the event of urgent medical
need.” Customs officials in New York arrested a Canadian stripper who tried to smuggle 78,771 hits of ecstasy into the United States inside some Legos.
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| February 13, 2001 | -
Japan banned a Chinese soft drink that contains 64.3 mg of sildenafil, the active ingredient of Viagra, per serving; a Japanese Viagra tablet contains 25-50 mg of sildenafil.
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