Word: amylives
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...being able to utilize oxygen carried in the blood. Exposure leads to dizziness, nausea, weakness, loss of consciousness and convulsions. Breathing stops and death follows. (Since blood agents are carried through the respiratory system, a gas mask is the only protection needed. If one is exposed to blood agents, amyl nitrite provides an antidote, if administered quickly enough.) (See surprising assets on the CIA payroll...
...investigation into the causes of the syndrome. Disease detectives interviewed scores of homosexuals about their sexual practices to test the hypothesis that AIDS was somehow tied to the gay life-style. They briefly considered and then discarded a theory linking AIDS to the use of "poppers" (liquid inhalants like amyl nitrite and butyl nitrite), which are said to enhance sexual pleasure and which had been used by many of the victims. Another theory held that repeated anal intercourse introduced sperm into the blood-stream and that this could cause profound immune suppression. Then there was the "immune-overload theory," which...
...doesn't attract the right people," said AmyL. Beck '00. "The women here are alreadycomfortable with eating in front of other people...
...never intended to do any harm. I just wanted to have some innocent fun. It was the '60s and the spirit of adventure was in the air. I had managed to funnel some of the profits from a bustling amyl nitrate trade into real estate, and one of my tenants was a young artist named Andy Warhol...
...side of Watergate South because it is too big for the elevators--this is the stuff of Great Trash. In addition, there are herbal wraps at Elizabeth Arden and pokes at perfume ("Bunyan could see his obituary . . . Asphyxiated by Giorgio. Hardly fair, after he'd given up amyl nitrate"). The socially crucial pass in review: Donald Trump shows up in yet another novel. And the patrons of Le Cirque. And the Annenbergs. By now, if this were a just world, they would all be earning royalty checks...