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CBS News writes here: contraception for men may finally become a commercial reality within the next few years, experts suggest. Research offers reassuring evidence that it is not only effective, but reversible.

Researchers from UCLA and the University of Sydney analyzed sperm data from male hormonal birth control studies conducted over the last two decades. They found that most men’s sperm counts returned to normal within four or five months of stopping treatment. It is one thing to know that male hormonal contraception works, and another thing to know that fertility can be easily restored when a man chooses,” says researcher Peter Y. Liu, Ph.D., M.D. “This is an important step in the evolution of male contraception.”

The Washington Post writes here: Exxon Mobil Corp. reported $8.4 billion in first-quarter profit yesterday, as members of Congress outraged over high gasoline prices hastened to propose measures that would boost taxes on oil firms, open new areas to drilling and provide rebates to taxpayers but would not necessarily alter prices at the pumps.
Meanwhile CNN reports here: President Bush on Thursday said he wants to raise fuel-efficiency standards on automobiles, as members of both parties jockeyed for political position on the issue of rising gas prices.

"This is ridiculous," said Jackie Tarone, a retired homemaker and Bush voter who was filling up a Mercedes SL500. "The oil companies keep giving money to the politicians to keep them in there — that’s the way the system works. It’s a shame." See this story here " Pain at Pumps May Be Felt at Polls" from The Washington Post for more.

In this predictably wretched season of sneezing, sniffling, coughing and itchy, watery eyes, meet Andrea Theis. The Silver Spring mother moved here in the late 1990s from her native Utah, where she suffered spring and fall from the gunk in the air. She was warned to expect the worst: Even people without allergies, she was told, get them in Washington.  ……..  For more read this article here from the Washington Post and please let us know what you think.