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Invasion of the body pleasers
Luke Harding
Along with soccer fans, officials planning next summer's World Cup in Berlin expect to host tens of thousands of foreign prostitutes.
Rubber match
Andrew Leonard
What do you get when you design a condom that men want to use? Sued. Inside the twisted patent battle over prophylactics.
The Big Idea
Sarah Karnasiewicz, Salon Staff
Bodyguards for sheep, plug-in hybrids, edible yards and other environmental innovations worth celebrating.
Making the panopticon user-friendly
Cory Doctorow
Lester solves messiness! Chapter 5 of "Themepunks."
Letters
Salon Staff
"Kate Moss has always been, and probably always will be, thin. Like it or not, some girls just are." Readers react to the rise and fall of Kate Moss.
Daily Download: “(I Can’t Seem to) Make You Mine,” the Clientele
Salon Staff
An exclusive download from the Clientele's gorgeous new album
Ask the pilot
Patrick Smith
Not even a trip to El Salvador could break the spell of crashes. Meanwhile, can a flight attendant land a 737, and why can't I hold my breath at 37,000 feet?
Single, white with dildo
Anna Jane Grossman
Thanks to developments in the field of "teledildonics," quick and easy cybersex is becoming an option for anyone with a mouse. Could Internet-enabled sex toys soon become must-haves for online daters?
Europe vs. Google
Hilmar Schmundt
American Goliaths like Google and Amazon are quickly cornering the digital book market. Will online libraries doom the scholars and small presses of old Europe?
Your Premium dollars at work
Joan Walsh
Thank you for supporting reporting on Iraq that you won't find anywhere else
Journalism that doesn’t flinch
Joan Walsh
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The next Web revolution
Farhad Manjoo
The Web celebrates its 10th anniversary and it's still a pain to use -- clunky, slow and unresponsive. But thanks to creative small companies like Chicago's 37 Signals, the Web is finally becoming as fun and flexible as your favorite software.
My parents don’t like my boyfriend
Cary Tennis
We'd like to stay together, but I'm not sure I could handle the rift that would create.
King Kaufman’s Sports Daily
Salon Staff
Rafael Palmeiro tests positive. Maybe the post-steroids era hasn't started after all. Plus: Manny Ramirez is happy! And other trade-deadline non-blockbusters.
The world in the iPod
Andrew Leonard
The microchip that runs Apple's popular music player is made in India, Taiwan, China and Silicon Valley. Is this an example of how globalization works to everyone's benefit -- or a sign that the world economy is about to roll over America?
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers weigh in on Cary Tennis' responses to the Buddhist with a God problem, the closeted lawyer, and the pathological liar.
My first twister
Mark Svenvold
In an excerpt from his new book, "Big Weather," Mark Svenvold describes the tornado encounter that turned him into a storm chaser.
American Girl crazy!
Margaret Talbot
A gaggle of earnest dolls in historic costumes are threatening to dethrone Barbie. How'd they do it?
Appetite for destruction
Amanda Griscom Little
Republican Reps. Richard Pombo and John Peterson have put a poison pill in this year's energy bill -- an amendment that would eliminate the public review process for projects on public land.
The gushing truth
Robert Bryce
Contrary to Bush, enviros and Thomas Friedman, America will never be energy independent. The sooner we accept this, the sooner we'll be able to change our gas-guzzling ways.
King Kaufman’s Sports Daily
Salon Staff
It's baseball season. First winning pitcher: Randy Johnson. First home run: Hideki Matsui. First steroid perp: Alex Sanchez? Plus: The Final Four.
How Merck stacked the Vioxx deck
Robert Burton
The pharmaceutical giant knew there were heart risks associated with its painkiller -- but its own studies were designed to avoid finding out how serious they were.
Death penalty for I.V. drug users
Maia Szalavitz
The Bush administration is considering imposing a gag rule on U.S.-funded groups that provide clean needles to addicts, despite their huge success in preventing the spread of HIV.
Speed demon
James Maier
Steroids aren't the only drug that help you on the job. As a 28-year-old freelancer, I had a special friend that helped me crank out stories: Meth.
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