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Jockstrip: The world as we know it

By ALEX CUKAN, United Press International
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'NEW YORK HOT SEX' PREMIERS

New York City is getting a new monthly magazine called NYHS -- short for "New York Hot Sex" -- that will be available in Starbucks, Tower Records, stores, delis and nightspots.

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"We are about good food, friends and places to hang. This is the sexiest city in the world, and we want to promote the pleasure it can bring rather than the heartache," Loren Feldman, the 37-year-old editor in chief of the magazine, tells the New York Daily News. "We are not porn."

The first issue features articles about male go-go dancers, the 10 sexiest New Yorkers -- Susan Sarandon tops the list -- and what an amateur porn set is like, the News says.


KEY TO PENSION REFORM -- BABIES

David Willetts, a Conservative minister in Parliament, argues what the European pension systems need is more babies.

Willietts says in a statement that when U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld characterized France, Germany and Italy as "old Europe" he was right in that the population is aging.

He writes in a pamphlet "Old Europe? Demographic Change and Pension Reform" that at present rates over the next 50 years, the European Union would have an extra 40 million people over age 60 and a reduction of 40 million in the number of people age 15 to 60. All because not enough children are being born.

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BOTOX ON THE RISE

The number of Botox injections has increased by 50 percent to more than 1 million users in 2002, the year it was approved by the Food and Drug Administration.

Figures for 2003 are still incomplete, but so far Botox is booming, the New York Post reports.

According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, 19 percent of all 2002 Botox users were from the East Coast, while western states made up an additional 30 percent.

"I see all walks of life in here, 25-year-olds to women over 80 who don't want to undergo the knife," Dr. Paula Moynahan of New York, who has specialized in Botox injections for more than 10 years, tells the Post.

Moynahan says finding the right physician is important, to avoid the "Stepford wife look."


HALF MOVED IN PAST EIGHT YEARS

Americans keeping moving -- about 120 million or 46 percent of the nation's population that was 5 years old and over in 2000 lived in a different home than they did in 1995.

The U.S. Census Bureau finds 25 percent moved within the same county, 10 percent within the same state and 8 percent between states; while 3 percent had moved from abroad.

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Louisiana, Pennsylvania and Michigan had the highest proportion of residents -- more than 75 percent -- who lived in the state where they were born.

Nevada, Florida and Arizona had the lowest -- less than 35 percent -- who had been born in the state.

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