Word: ammann
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...John Marin's watercolors of the New York skyline or the Empire State Building itself, surging upward before the astonished eyes of Gotham at the rate of one floor a day? A relief sculpture by Charles Biederman or the prodigious steel catenaries of Othmar H. Ammann's design for the George Washington Bridge...
Children of drug addicts and bisexuals seem to be another vulnerable group. Among the unclassifiable 6% are several children born to addicted parents. Pediatric Immunologist Arthur Ammann of the University of California at San Francisco has presented the most compelling evidence of parental transmission of AIDS: a 30-year-old, drug-addicted prostitute whose four daughters all developed symptoms of the immune disorder. The fact that each baby had a different father and that the mother has no sign of a hereditary disease suggests that the cause was not genetic. "Our only option is an infectious cause," says Ammann...