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...monogamous relationship with another HIV-negative man in which both can throw caution to the winds. The problem is that the tests can be inaccurate, a lover can have unsafe sex outside the relationship and become infected, or a lover can simply lie about the results. Some gay men assert that they have been found HIV negative when in fact they haven't taken a test; they simply feel O.K. and don't think they have done anything especially risky...
...when friends, relatives, neighbors, co-workers and other acquaintances see how many gays there are, and how many of these people already hold their trust, bigotry will vanish. In a sense, AIDS has done this. Fatal illness has forced some celebrities out of the closet and prompted others to assert their sexuality as an act of conscience. The sheer volume of suffering has made homosexuals less exotic and more sympathetic. Slowly the message is getting across that gays neither invented the disease nor bear special responsibility for transmitting it, that the epidemic is universal. But however much AIDS may have...
Perhaps not surprisingly, Yeltsin's Russian espionage establishment seems to regard its continued activity abroad as perfectly normal. All industrial countries engage in spying even against friends, officials in Moscow assert; moreover, Western agents continue to snoop after Russian military and space technologies. Following the discovery of the Russian spy ring in Belgium, the SVR calmly explained that Russia had, in fact, been spying. "We can't blame it on anyone else, least of all on the American counterintelligence service," said an SVR spokesman. Then, in a highly unusual tip of his hat to a onetime archenemy, he added...
...self-deluded woman who is steeped more in the ethos of the '50s than the '90s, largely by her own unconscious design. Based on a slender sampling of unfaithful wives, Heyn makes sweeping generalizations about the malleability and self-deception of American wives and their inability to assert their own needs within the marital relationship. All of this -- which is presented with oozing sympathy but is actually quite patronizing -- is used to justify a wife's decision to take a lover to find emotional and sexual succor. While Heyn never directly encourages women to have affairs, she strives to make...
...clear message has come out of this meeting, it is that the 178 nations represented will all have to change if the agreements are to have any teeth. Statements from the poorer nations tended to place all blame for the earth's woes on the rich nations and assert that these polluters should pay the developing world to protect its ecosystems. Speth called this attitude a "prescription for long-term disaster since it will lead people to wait for money before they take actions that are in their own interest." Moreover, because of the billions of dollars in development assistance...