This Is Your Nation on Steroids.

GENETIC engineering; POPULAR culture; DOPING in sports; DRUG use by athletes; ATHLETES; ABILITY; EXPERTISE; ATHLETIC ability; COGNITIVE ability; SILDENAFIL; PHYSICAL fitness; HEALTH status indicators; ATHLETICS; HUMAN growth; DEVELOPMENTAL biology; GROWTH of children; HUMAN life cycle; LONGEVITY

Presents observations about how U.S. society scorns athletes who partake in performance-enhancing drugs. Suggestion that popular culture has embraced performance enhancement in the forms of plastic surgery and extended sex lives; Reference to how many adults take Ritalin to sharpen their senses and improve performance and short children are given human growth hormone to boost their self esteem; How sports are an area of society which promotes institutional fairness and equality despite the fact that many teams and nations are far more successful than others in competitions; Denouncement of steroid use by President George W. Bush during his State of the Union speech; How advancements in genetic engineering will impact the performance enhancement of society.