As the wheels and vacuum pumps of the redistributive welfare state grind and suck, they create enormous political friction and massive economic inefficiency.

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Ms Sheehy, as if struggling to contain a thrashing whale, tries as far as she can to talk about golf and male bonding and inner peace, but in the last section she gives in completely with a romp through Viagra, testosterone patches, penile injections and vacuum pumps, as if all that has gone before is merely foreplay.

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To achieve these feats, Nektar's scientists performed hundreds of hours of computer simulations, tested more than a dozen different formulations of dried insulin and traveled around the world drawing inspiration from ancient Chinese seeds, plants in the Mexican desert and production techniques used in making instant coffee, powdered milk, aviation aerodynamics, truck fuel injectors and industrial vacuum pumps.

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