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...known cure. It is still spreading rapidly among intravenous drug abusers. They pass along the virus to those who share needles with them or to sexual partners, both male and female. Women who are part of the drug scene often transmit the virus to their unborn children, almost surely dooming them to an early death. Some researchers fear that AIDS could eventually spread, through heterosexual intercourse, from addicts to the population at large. But so far the epidemic has confined itself, for the most part, to gay communities, to the drug cultures of inner cities, and to hemophiliacs and others...
Quayle found especially valuable the tutoring of Democrat Mondale. Among other things, Mondale urged Quayle to avoid getting bogged down as head of dozens of presidential task forces and commissions. In Mondale's view, such assignments almost inevitably turn into trivial pursuits. It is no accident that most of Quayle's tutors were right of center. His instincts are deeply conservative, and though he insists he will not act as a "spear carrier" for the right, one conservative activist views him as a potential provider of "political intelligence" about what is going on in the Administration. Bush aides, however...
...enemy. Reagan had dutifully carried the card for eight years. Its unimportance at his parting was perhaps the most powerful statement of this singular leader's legacy. The world moves toward peace, and the paraphernalia of nuclear command, which once held the world in its thrall, is almost an afterthought...
...answered his national security assistant, Lieut. General Colin Powell. "After the swearing-in of President Bush, a military aide will take it from you." Almost reluctantly, Reagan tucked the card back in his pocket. He took one more sweeping look around the room where he had exercised the globe's greatest power so long and so exuberantly, slowly squared his shoulders and walked out to the sun-streaked colonnade that links the office with the mansion. White House staff members crowded against the glass doors and windows, some of them openly weeping...
...football team, voted the national champion, came by and left Reagan the blue-and-gold letter sweater of George Gipp. Suddenly make-believe was real; the latter-day Gipper finally had the authentic article, and he clung to it reverently as the team departed. The apt gift touched him almost as much as anything that happened in the parting...