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...guess is that 5% to 10% of people who do not have symptoms but do have antibodies to the virus (meaning they have been exposed) will develop AIDS within five years. There is no way to tell which ones will get it. "It's like Russian roulette with one bullet and ten chambers," says Ronald Sanders of the Los Angeles health department. For people with ARC, the odds of developing AIDS within three years may approach 20%, or two bullets...
...more clearly deserved a place in the Hall of Fame, and he was the first player voted in at the 1936 start. The battle of self-destruction and will began back in rural Georgia, when the teenage hunter accidentally shot himself with a .22 rifle. The bullet lodged in the vicinity of his clavicle and remained there for the rest of his life. Tyrus Raymond Cobb's father, W.H., a school commissioner, thought of his son as a potential doctor or lawyer. As Professor Cobb saw it, baseball players were drunken, wenching, low-salaried louts. He relented when Ty refused...
...which has learned to quantify everything, perhaps it might not seem strange that the soul of a killer should be sought in his posthumous neuroanatomy. In an age of scientific miracles, every field of human endeavor looks to science for the silver bullet to pierce the heart of a problem. Why not the heart of evil...
Lucky me. After distilling the finer accomplishments of my recent years into a series of bland bullet points, I eagerly awaited the response of many a glorified firm...
Reagan's handlers would like to recreate the atmospherics of April 1981, when the President triumphantly bounced back from a bullet wound to address a whistling, cheering Congress. The outpouring of good will helped propel both significant spending reductions and a huge tax cut through Congress over that summer. Some have suggested that the Reaganauts might once again translate public sympathy for Reagan into a congressional goad. "If he returns by the fall, now having licked the Big C, he becomes an even more formidable political figure," says White House Communications Director Patrick Buchanan. To be sure, Reagan's stock...