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...there was a lot of nervousness. I had butterflies. All day, I was kind of fidgety. But when I walked out on the field, the fans started cheering. The size, the intensity, I got a kick out of the New York fans, the way they were jumping around."--Jim Abbott after pitching the Yankees home opener...
Psychologists and social workers who specialize in treating the gay community see the condition of survivor guilt with growing frequency. "We gay men are living under a pile of corpses that we can't bury emotionally," says Franklin Abbott, a psychotherapist who practices in Atlanta. In extreme cases, he says, when a lover has died, a patient may feel unworthy to be still alive. In his own life, Abbott adds, any word of an acquaintance's early death would have reduced him to tears a few years ago. Now he hears such news matter-of- factly, numbly, without flinching...
...Solid statistics are impossible to get. But anecdotally, the second group seems to be growing dangerously. While a few years ago the rate of new infection among gay men seemed to be slowing down, or even declining, studies in San Francisco and elsewhere have raised questions about that. Therapist Abbott briskly describes what many gay men report: "There is an awful lot of safe-sex recidivism. People who know what they are supposed to do and have been doing it for a while are finding it irresistible to return to their dangerous old ways...
...else. Janssen Pharmaceutica, a Belgium-based subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, is in the lead with risperidone, a drug that so far appears to be safer than clozapine and works in the same way. Testing is incomplete, however, and the drug is at least 18 months away from the market. Abbott Labs, Eli Lilly and others are also developing successors to clozapine...
...house system created by President Abbott Lawrence Lowell was intended to allow students to mix academics with extracurricular life, in imitation of the residential college system of Oxford and Cambridge Universities...