Word: blood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard researchers eagerly await next week's liftoff of the United States Space Shuttle Columbia, which will carry their unprecedented experiment on the effects of weightlessness on human blood...
...Granted," the Queen said, "Rosen has no royal velvet blood. But his blood is true Crimson, and that's good enough for Phil...
...making a comeback in American film. Yes, cop pictures, films-noir, and private eye sagas are back following the failure of a slew of teen comedies, westerns, and serious "Oscar-bait" dramas, all presumed more commercial by an industry that generally felt melodrama had become the province of TV. "Blood Simple," "Witness," "Prizzi's Honor," and "Jagged Edge" have all contributed to a feeling in Hollywood that audiences want better and more adult stories in their theatrical diet...
...wolves attacking a square mile of sheet metal. Clips from the earlier three movies fly past with the incredible rapidity of a flurry of Marvin Hagler haymakers to the pounding strains of "Burning Heart" by Survivor. The audience has to weather flashing lights, smoke, flags, flying drops of sweat, blood stains, chanting crowds and the ever-present metallic thuds of potentially lethal blows. And like a punch drunk pugilist the audience succumbs...
...including care before the HTLV-III virus was identified and medical workers began to take simple precautions, not one case of casual transmission has ever been recorded. The virus is transmitted only when one person's bodily fluids in which it is present enter the body of another person. Blood and semen are examples of fluids which commonly carry the HTLV-III virus; on the other hand, of 83 saliva samples taken from HTLV-III carriers in a recent Massachusetts General Hospital study mentioned by Dr. Ho, the virus was found in only one of them, and in very small...