A STUDY published in a 1995 issue of the Journal of Urology
estimated that 600,000 men in the United States are impotent from
injuries to their crotches, about 40 percent of them from
too-vigorous bicycling. And in July, the Food and Drug
Administration approved the first prescription drug to treat
impotence, Caverject, which is injected directly into the penis
before intercourse. An FDA warning advised patients to contact their
doctors immediately if the erection had not subsided within six
Artist Charles Flagg, hassled by Darien, N.Y., officials for keeping
an unregistered car on his property in violation of a zoning law,
dug a hole in his back yard in July, buried half the car, front-end
down, and called it a sculpture.
