Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Crisis: Heterosexual Behavior in the Age of AIDS...
...misinformation the disease. Their claim that AIDS is "rampant" in the heterosexual population is unsubstantiated by their research; their treatment of the ways in which AIDS is spread is irresponsible, and their recommendations are ill-advised. Their evidence does show that the public is not modifying its sexual behavior to prevent infection and it should be taken seriously, but one suspects that the misinformation and half-truths contained in this work are more likely to spread--and faster than any virus...
...habit of nightly picking up strangers at bars in major cities, or regularly frequents prostitutes. These are the people at whom the book should be aimed. As for the rest of us, we must make haste to save lives, even if they are not our own. Or sexual behavior should be cautious, yet not terrified; our political behavior should be swift, yet not tyrannical...
Walters claims that two Facilities Maintenance supervisors caused her emotional distress through "insensitive" behavior and lenient handling of a co-worker who harassed...
...develop such systems, a rebel generation of AI scientists believes that it is necessary to rebuild their field from the ground up. Their emphasis, says Philosopher Daniel Dennett of Tufts University, is on figuring out how people manage to accomplish the plain, everyday things that account for most human behavior, rather than on creating a mathematical model of the intellect, as an older generation of AI researchers have tried and failed...