Word: blood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...around the country have become society's new untouchables. Workers have been fired; babies abandoned; children, like Ryan White of Kokomo, Ind., banned from school. The fears have persisted despite assurances from doctors that AIDS has been known to spread almost exclusively through sexual contact and exposure to infected blood. A poll taken last summer showed that nearly half of Americans thought they could get the disease by drinking from a glass used by a patient; 32% thought kissing was risky...
Yevtushenko recently captured international headlines when he denounced Sylvester Stallone's films, "Rocky IV" and "Rambo: First Blood, Part II" as "warnography." Yevtushenko told a press gathering in the Soviet Union that the films' images of violence toward Soviets undermined friendly relations between the U.S. and the USSR...
...procedure that has given Lewis a future somewhat resembles kidney dialysis. Patients undergoing LDL-pheresis sit or recline for three to four hours as their blood circulates through two specialized devices. The first separates blood cells from blood plasma; the second filters the plasma through a jar of porous beads coated with an antibody that traps LDL. The beauty of the procedure, says its developer, German Biochemist Wilhelm Stoffel, is that "the antibody picks out only LDL." Other important blood components, including a valuable form of cholesterol called HDL (high-density lipoprotein), are all returned to the patient. In fact...
Though patients undergoing LDL-pheresis have suffered few side effects, the long-term consequences are unknown. There is a theoretical risk, doctors say, that antibodies in the filter could leach out into the blood and cause allergic reactions. Many believe the inconvenience and expense of the procedure will limit its applicability. Dr. Antonio Gotto, a leading lipid researcher, estimates that a year of weekly treatments would cost $40,000. Even an LDL-pheresis enthusiast like Chazov agrees that it is not "a means of mass treatment for atherosclerosis." For that, he says, one must turn not to miraculous medical intervention...
...keen eye for daily routines in the old Victorian house, located in what was apparently once Cambridge, Mass. She notes the costume she must wear, a Handmaid's uniform, when she is allowed to go out shopping: "Everything except the wings around my face is red: the color of blood, which defines us. The skirt is ankle-length, full, gathered to a flat yoke that extends over the breasts, the sleeves are full." The image of a scarlet nun seems appropriate to her role in this strange new society. Once a month, during the Ceremony, Offred has sex with...