Word: actualizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...story in yesterday's Crimson erroneously reported that health officials knew about 25 cases of AIDS at Harvard. It is not clear how many actual cases of the disease exist on campus, but the figure of 25 applies to the number of people who have tested positive for the AIDS-causing HIV virus...
Aside from the fact that there was an actual racial crime committed in Howard Beach, the case also showed that cooperation with the authorities can get result. Sharpton, Mason and Maddox accepted the city's special prosecutor, cooperated with the his investigations and the results were manslaughter convictions against the gang of white thugs who chased a Black man to his death...
...from what angles do people see Boston? Maybe as a three-day tourist, or a student out for the evening. Even the people with jobs, the ones who actually live here, have only a specific view of the city, created by the daily schedule of working and going home. Jonathan Raban has written a book called Soft City (which I haven't actually read), which talks about the different cities people create for themselves; "your" city, the one you react to and live in, is made up of bits and pieces of actual contact...
Steroids do not build muscles directly but rather allow the body to bulk up with training beyond the degree possible with natural levels of testosterone. Or so it is thought. Their actual value is hotly disputed, in part because there are few large-scale studies. Athletes take the steroids in doses much larger than those used for therapeutic purposes, and doctors have been reluctant to conduct research that would in any way condone a practice they consider unhealthy. Athletes have fewer doubts. Dr. Forest Tennant, a California researcher, estimated in the New England Journal of Medicine that "as many...
...year, TIME correspondent William Stewart asked a group of recently freed Vietnamese political prisoners whether they had seen or heard of American captives. All said they had not. One senior Vietnamese official said that while he had heard occasional reports of Americans in the countryside, he believed that any actual sightings were of deserters or mixed-race children of U.S. servicemen...