Word: aphrodisiacal
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...five-course truffle menu for $290 per person. At his Washington, D.C., outpost, the menu is slightly less dear, with a four appetizers and four entrees to choose from for $95 per person. And you get cotton candy to top it off. Who knew that was an aphrodisiac? New York: 2 East 55th Street, 212-710-2277; Washington: 923 16th Street at K Street...
...life for an ant scheme. That’s the principle that Chinese administrators put in practice last week when they executed Wang Zhendong for fraud. Zhendong had duped investors out of over 400 million dollars with a bogus plan to breed ants with aphrodisiac effects. China thus established a clear policy of (very) tough justice for white-collar criminals who operate on a large scale...
...then there was the food. It's near impossible to have a bad meal in New Orleans, and if you're in town to get your romance on, you will not go hungry. Oysters are a well-known aphrodisiac - their stimulative properties may or may not be legit, but we figured it never hurts to try - so we decided to eat as many as humanly possible. We started with a plate of clean, raw oysters at Dickie Brennan's Bourbon House (144 Bourbon Street; 504-522-0111). Then my man discovered that you could also get oysters with caviar...
...surprising that the HIV discussion is so hard to have. Death isn't much of an aphrodisiac. But Chiasson and her colleagues have found that men who watch The Morning After are three times more likely to disclose their HIV status the next time they hook up. That's not a bad start...
...Chinese bloggers use to evade the authorities and managed to have his blog reappear on the Internet almost immediately by using proxy servers and mirror sites outside China. But Zhou's luck ran out when he traveled to Shenyang to interview victims of a pyramid scheme involving a supposed aphrodisiac powder made from crushed ants. Victims handed over cash and were told they would get a guaranteed 30% annual return if they kept supplying the ants. Eventually, the scheme collapsed and hundreds of defrauded investors demonstrated repeatedly outside local government headquarters. After talking with some of the duped investors, Zhou...