Word: catches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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AIDS is not easy to catch, even from an infected sex partner. But researchers at last week's 27th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, in Manhattan, presented further evidence that the odds are not equal for all players in today's sexual roulette. Drawing on a study of 357 men at a venereal-disease clinic in Nairobi, Microbiologist William Cameron reported that uncircumcised men are 9 1/2 times as likely as circumcised males to become infected after exposure. According to Cameron, "The mucosal membrane underneath the foreskin may trap the virus, making it more likely to enter...
...remember playing catch with my uncle's teammates after the game. Football players were actually tossing a football with me. Unbelievable. I made sure never to drop the ball--but most of the time...
...Harvard's time to play catch-up, and the aquamen used goals by Nick Branca and Wolff to get within one with a minute left to play...
There is a catch for the powerful though. No matter how upscale a Manhattanite climbs, he can never escape the sight of poverty or the threat of violence. The glitterati on their way to a $1,000-a-ticket gala must tiptoe through the homeless camped outside in their cardboard condos. And at this week's chic disco -- in this week's beyond-chic movie thriller -- a wealthy young woman named Claire Gregory (Mimi Rogers) may be witness to a murder. And be tabbed and stalked by the killer. And be protected by Mike Keegan (Tom Berenger), a Queens policeman...
...imagine a dean at another law school perceiving that Harvard might be a reasonable place to fish for a catch from the faculty. People might think that if there is fighting, there may be somebody who wants to leave," said Carrington, who provoked an uproar in 1984 when he wrote that crits were "nihilists" and should not be allowed to teach in law schools...