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...Some people wait their whole lives for othersto christen their lives meaningful," said Chapman,a Crimson editor. "The meaning isn't inthe...images or titles of our lives. We have tofind it, like blind photographers seeing in ourown darkness...
Such tactics, activists contend, are the only way to jolt the public's fickle attention back to the AIDS epidemic. "A lot of the AIDS stories are old news, so we have to be enticing to make reporters cover them," says Pat Christen, executive director of the mainstream San Francisco AIDS Foundation. As for vandalism, ACT UP member Mark Kostopoulos declares, "It's easier to scrape off paint than raise the dead...
...they describe these women as part-time models. I brush my teeth every morning -- does that make me a part-time dentist?" On Princess Di: "With twelve bodyguards around her all the time, how could she possibly have an affair? 'Where are you going, honey?' 'Just out to christen a battleship, dear...
...more to stop the spread of the AIDS virus, say critics of testing, is education. "Our problem is not finding out who's infected," says New York Commissioner Joseph, "but educating everyone about the risks. Everyone -- young, old, gay, straight -- has to consider AIDS as a personal message." Pat Christen of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation agrees. "It's not up to me to test everyone to see that you don't get infected. It's up to you to protect yourself...
...healthier alternative to smoking. "It can't hurt you athletically like cigarettes can," Al Lawrence, 18, of Taunton, Mass., reasons. "Baseball players use it all the time." But doctors say the facts are very different. Dipping causes visible damage "in as little as three to four months," says Arden Christen, chairman of the preventive-dentistry department at Indiana University. The gums may recede, the teeth loosen, biting surfaces are abraded, and tough, white patches called leukoplakia may appear on the gums and cheeks. After several years the mouth can be devastated. Pat Stallings, 22, a University of Texas senior...