Israel is investigating black-market sales of a U.S. treatment for impotence. Viagara, whose sales are rising quickly in the United States, cannot be sold legally in the Jewish state. But a recent edition of the newspaper Yediot Achronot advertised the “new erection pill from the United States.”
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