Word: bloodstream
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...figure was disturbing to my parents. Lee had admitted to being a frequent user of marijuana, and to avoid penalty from the Baseball Commission for smoking it, he fabricated a story of sprinkling pot on his organic buckwheat pancakes. The THC, he claimed, would be activated in his bloodstream as he jogged to practice. Then-baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn never did figure out if he could charge Lee with anything...
...this atmosphere, it was relatively easy for Bush to exploit the royalist genes that linger in the Republican bloodstream despite the transfusion of Reaganism. None of his rivals could make a convincing case that the normal line of succession should be suspended in 1988. On Tuesday night one of Dole's Democratic friends, Party Elder Bob Strauss, was visibly saddened by the G.O.P. election returns. Then he brightened and observed, "The Democratic Party may be better off with this result." However, such doubts about Bush's ability to defend the Reagan palace, either in November or in the White House...
...research, published last week in the quarterly journal AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses, may help explain why some AIDS carriers can go on having unprotected sex for years without passing the virus to a regular partner. Although it is known that enough of the virus appears in the bloodstream shortly after infection to spread the disease via blood transfusions, sexual transmission is a different matter. The new study, of 24 hemophiliac AIDS carriers, shows that despite repeated sexual contact without condoms, the wives or steady female partners of these men generally remained free of the virus for several years...
...thing, promiscuity and prostitution are common in parts of Africa, and general standards of hygiene and medical care are low. Scientists believe widespread venereal diseases in Africa also contribute to the spread of AIDS by causing genital ulcerations that make it easier for the virus to enter the bloodstream. Finally, Africans suffer from more nonvenereal viral and parasitic diseases than do Americans, and the Africans' overtaxed immune systems may be more vulnerable to the AIDS virus...
...data showed that while the placebo group had suffered 189 heart attacks, the group taking aspirin had only 104. Moreover, taking aspirin also produced a reduction in the number of cardiac deaths. Still, researchers were concerned that aspirin, which works by preventing clots in the bloodstream, might lead to an increase in certain kinds of strokes; the suspended study showed a slight increase of such strokes among the aspirin takers...