Word: blood
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...decades. It also tends to kill slowly, laying waste the immune system so that patients fall prey to a debilitating succession of infections. Unlike the plague of Guy's era, it is spread only through the most intimate forms of human contact: sexual intercourse, childbearing, the sharing of contaminated blood or needles...
...disease that was recognized from a practical point of view only in 1981," says Dr. Samuel Broder, who oversees the development of anti-AIDS drugs at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md. Since that time, he notes, the cause of AIDS has been discovered, the virus cloned, a blood- screening program implemented and development of a vaccine begun. Possibly most remarkable, the FDA is soon expected to approve the first therapeutic drug: azidothymidine (AZT), manufactured by Burroughs Wellcome...
Symptoms of a Valium overdose can includesleepiness, confusion, diminished reflexes,depressed blood pressure or coma, and treatmentincludes close observation and administeringintravenous fluids, according to medical referencebooks...
...forum for both critics and defenders of the show. But the network has vowed not to cave in to pressure to tone down the controversial movie or cancel it. ABC President John Sias told the New York Times last week, "We're going to run that program come rain, blood or horse manure." Or deadlines: the sprawling project, for which more than 1 million feet of film were shot, is still not done, and 33 editors are working furiously to finish it in time...
...behind the placid routine lie the very particular shadows and superstitions of Cambodian culture. May sets his story against the backdrop of his country's night world, a place of sorcerers and omens, in which dreams of blood mean money on the way and the hooting of an owl portends miscarriage. One day he drops in on a friend to find the boy spouting gibberish while a cross-legged magician tries to exorcise his "evil spirit" with the branch of a star-fruit tree...