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Last week the New England Journal of Medicine published the results of a study that should finally put such fears to rest. The study, conducted at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, involved 101 people living in close but nonsexual contact with AIDS patients. Its conclusion: the risk of catching AIDS, even in an intimate household setting, is "minimal to nonexistent...
...Montalto--community leaders who work in different ways for Sunset Park --all agree that the center is the social engine of the neighborhood. They remember that in 1978, Sunset Park, though designated a poverty area in the 1960s, had not yet reached the point of deterioration of the South Bronx and the now destitute Bushwick section of Brooklyn. There was still a chance to pull the neighborhood back from disintegration. The center is credited for the beginnings of recovery. Mary Paul and Geraldine do not deny this, since it is demonstrably true. At the same time they are made visibly...
...messes up everything. I know he's going to mess up Christmas again. Year before last, we were driving to our cousins in the Bronx. It was raining, and he gets in a fight with another driver. Last Christmas the same. We were in the car, and he's driving drunk, putting us in danger. And he starts fighting with my big sister, who can't take it. She keeps her unhappiness inside. She ; tried to kill herself one time by swallowing all my grandmother's asthma pills. My other sister tried to kill herself too. They had to clean...
...BRONX, N.Y.--A funny thing happened at Manhattan College's Draddy Gym a few minutes after 9 p.m. Saturday night: the Harvard men's basketball team showed up for real...
...Manhattan College is actually located in the Bronx--Riverdale to be specific--right accross the street from the famous private high school, Horacc Mann...