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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Concern is growing over the possible spread of AIDS in prisons. In Denver, nervous officials quarantined a 16-year-old, convicted of carrying a concealed weapon, because he had tested positive for the AIDS virus. He ate off disposable plates, which, along with his bed linen, were incinerated after being handled with gloves and double-bagged. Later tests showed he did not have the disease. In prisons where sodomy and drug use are commonplace, some inmates are fatalistic. Says Nadim Khoury, chief of health services for the California department of corrections: "They say, 'What more can happen...
...Bloomingdale in more citified surroundings. Last week Nancy got a chance to sample the glitzy social whirl of Beverly Hills when the Reagans came down off the mountain for a three-day sojourn in lotus land. They hobnobbed at dinner parties with old Hollywood cronies like Jimmy Stewart, and ate chicken with three of their children (Maureen was in Sacramento) in a $3,000a-night presidential suite at the Century Plaza Hotel. The First Couple then returned to the 688-acre ranch for another lazy week. By the time the Reagans climb aboard Air Force One for the flight back...
Coming to the U.S. is a dream that sometimes starts as a nightmare. Carty, the 1970 National League batting champion who played nine years for the Braves, remembers he ate chicken for three months because he did not know enough English to ask for anything else. And he never did adjust to cold weather in the early weeks of the season. A few teams now have programs, including English lessons, to bridge the culture gap, and some players take to the U.S. well enough to stay...
...desperately needed. My roommates and I did get along, and we are still good friends, but we were so fundamentally different and travelled in such completely opposite circles that I could never belong where they were. I stopped dealing with my roommates altogether by the second semester. I ate with my Crimson friends, went to their parties, visited their homes during vacations. Sometimes I even slept at The Crimson. The photo lounge became my home, and I hoped that one day I would become its proprietor...
...with their tails. The rabbi just sort of stared and sniffed the air; he must have wondered what that tref scent was, lingering in the kid's bedroom. The minute the rabbi left, my mom and I gleefully threw the lobsters into a pot of boiling water and then ate them...