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Does Anderson have a natural immunity to AIDS? Just a few years ago, the idea would have seemed absurd. But that was before the results started coming in from a group of long-term health studies of 10,000 gay men, begun in the late 1970s to mid-1980s. Scientists, prodded by AIDS activists who wanted to "study the healthy" and to lift the shadows of doom that surround the disease, have now documented at least 70 cases like Anderson's. Researchers are also beginning to find similarly healthy, long-lived survivors among women and children with HIV. There...
...kind of absurd to have five players finish in the top ten," Cunningham said. "It just shows how good we were this year...
...rapists, and display contempt for heterosexuals in general. Wild animadversions such as "marital sex is sexual harassment is rape" and "heterosexuality is the eroticization of dominance and submission" full her speech and writings. (Ironically, MacKinnon herself recently married a feminist man, demonstrating that even she doesn't believe her absurd claims about marriage being rape.) MacKinnon asserts that nearly all heterosexual sex is rape, questioning even "whether consent is a meaningful concept." MacKinnon believes that sex constitutes rape if a woman who consented to sex subsequently regrets her choice, stating that "I call it rape when a women...
...policy toward the paranoiac convulsions in former Yugoslavia is bound to contain contradictions and weaknesses. In insisting on protecting their own troops in Sarajevo at all costs, Britain and France have turned these peacekeeping forces into hostages easily manipulated by the Serbs. All the humanitarian aid seems occasionally absurd when the people for whom it is destined are routinely shelled, ethnically cleansed or raped...
Last week, Bob Rae, the premier of Ontario, spoke in an unusually frank manner at the Center for International Affairs on lessons that the United States could learn from Ontario's health-care system. At one point in the discussion, he remarked that the absurd amounts spent on marginal health-care technology to preserve lives already at their tail end was a fruitless attempt to raise our collective quality of life. American medical-research institutions, he said, are trying to do to natural death what the Victorians did to sex--sweep it under the carpet and pretend that it doesn...