Word: abound
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...indicates infection with the AIDS virus but who have not developed the debilitating disease that has now attacked 71,171 nationwide. His situation places him among a growing group of Americans who often have difficulty finding work, housing and even medical care solely because of their test results. Reports abound of individuals who have been forced to resign from jobs, threatened with loss of a lease, or rejected for health or life insurance...
...have little social experience in dealing with different races," explains Nagayo Homma, a professor of American studies at the University of Tokyo. "They know about Martin Luther King and civil rights, but it's in an abstract context." If that is the situation, it is not surprising that stereotypes abound -- and not just about blacks: while whites generally are considered by Japanese to be advanced and "civilized," fellow Asians and others are sometimes seen as backward, even inferior...
Other questions about group dynamics abound. Among the foremost: Should women be included on a Mars expedition? If so, what about sex? No one likes to talk publicly about that, admits NASA Flight Surgeon Patricia Santy. "There's no reason, even in a highly motivated professional crew, that the same kind of sexual tensions that develop here in offices aren't going to develop in space." Santy believes women should be included in the crew. If they are, she says, there should be at least two -- both for mutual support and to avoid disruptive sexual entanglements aloft. Former Astronaut Michael...
Canoe Guide John Marlin of the nearby Twin Rivers Landing receives up to 16 complaints a day about ATVs. "The problems are from outsiders," he says. "When all those people get together with ATVs, and you combine that with alcohol, you have a real problem." Horror stories abound. Former River Guide Eric Dunn recalls an encounter in which an ATV jostled a canoe and knocked a little boy into the river. The child's father and the ATV driver "went at it for a while," recalls Dunn dryly. "Over three years ago, a young boy tried to run down...
Others disagree, saying that violations occurregularly in the labs. They say that abuses, suchas food being kept in the labs and technicianshandling materials they are not supposed to,abound, and that EHS inspectors often fail to seewhat's going...