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DESCRIPTION: Number of adult and adolescent AIDS victims who are Intravenous drug users, Homosexual male drug users, Heterosexual, Blood transfusion recipients, Hemophiliacs, and Undetermined...
...high-spirited adolescent commits an act of mischief. He and his buddies comically conspire to keep it secret from the adult world. Ultimately, though, the secret will out, and everyone draws a little closer together in a heartwarming and chucklesome conclusion. That plot is one of the stupefying conventions of movies about teenagers...
Earlier discoveries of Homo habilis fossils consisted only of skulls, teeth and questionable limb bones, forcing scientists to guess at the creature's size and proportions. But the dramatic new find, which includes skull, arm bones, thigh and shin fragments from a single adult female, permits a more accurate assessment. The length of the thigh bone is a gauge of height, and the relative length of the upper arm bone to the upper leg bone is a vital clue to body build. The remains, described in the British journal Nature last week, belong to a creature that lived about...
...Rita was a risky choice for Steppenwolf and the two performers, Austin Pendleton and Laurie Metcalf: audiences were likely to have vivid memories of the 1983 film that won Oscar nominations for Michael Caine and Julie Walters as a drunken, shambling university teacher and his bright but unschooled adult-education pupil. But the troupe has put its own stamp on the show, particularly in Metcalf's performance, which persuasively blends resurgent hope and hints of fiercely suppressed desperation. The romance that dominated the film is played down, and the title character emerges as no winsome waif but an embodiment...
...carapace. About two months before it is ready to emerge, the nymph tunnels its way upward, lying at the surface and building a protective earthen turret if the ground is too damp. This final rest stop is truly character building: it apparently enables the insect to develop adult claws and flight muscles to help it cope with life aboveground. "Their bodies undergo a major transformation, especially of muscle structure," says Miller...