Word: blood
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...have been perfectly forthright concerning their policies toward potential AIDS victims. Responding to a survey conducted by the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, 51 of 61 insurance companies admitted that they screen or plan to screen health- insurance applicants for signs of the AIDS virus. Half the firms give blood tests for the presence of AIDS antibodies, a sign that the applicant could be stricken with the disease...
Personal shots. Last week Gephardt Campaign Manager William Carrick apologized to Al Gore and Fred Martin, Gore's campaign manager, for calling them "bastards" in a Washington Post interview. The bad blood dates back to Gore's December win in the South Carolina straw poll. To hype the victory, the Gore camp issued a press release declaring that Carrick had personally led the Gephardt effort in the state. In fact, Carrick had returned twice to his native South Carolina, but only to visit his ailing mother...
...lower blood pressure and a better mood are not incentive enough for starting to exercise regularly, consider this: scientists now believe that lifelong physical exertion also protects against cancer and diabetes. In Boston last week researchers at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science reported that athletic women cut their risk of breast and uterine cancer in half and of the most common form of diabetes by two-thirds. Says Harvard Reproductive Biologist Rose Frisch, who led the 5,398-woman study: "The long-term effects of early exercise on health are impressive...
Meanwhile the competition has been reaching dizzying new speeds. In Sunday's race, 27 skaters broke Heiden's old record. After Jansen, the best U.S. hope for a medal had been Sprinter Nick Thometz. But following months of battling a low blood-platelet count and a recent bout of the flu, he finished eighth in the 500 and 18th in the 1,000. That race went to the Soviet Union's Nikolai Guliaev in 1:13.03. The silver went to East Germany's Jens-Uwe Mey, already winner of the 500 with a 36.45 record. Finally on Saturday...
...open-minded governing bylaw about nationality conveniently accommodating. For New Yorker George Tucker, a physicist born in Puerto Rico, Calgary actually offered a chance to improve. At his Sarajevo debut in 1984, Tucker shed alarming amounts of skin bouncing off the wall. "I was the luger who dripped blood," Tucker says. The next ( summer he recruited Muniz, who had schemed to represent Puerto Rico as a kayaker. "Misery loves company," explains Muniz. Argentine Ruben Gonzalez, a chemist, claims yet another distinction. "At any level, I am the only luger in South America." His level leaves an area for improvement just...