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...most of these explanations were abandoned as evidence grew that AIDS was caused by an infectious agent that could be passed from one person to another through sexual contact or in body fluids. The evidence included a "cluster" of nine patients in and around Los Angeles; each had had sex with people who later developed AIDS-related diseases. It was bolstered by the growing number of intravenous drug users infected by the disease. Addicts share germs when they share needles. Then came the clincher: cases of AIDS in hemophiliacs and later in recipients of donor blood. The pattern resembled that...
...little utopia. His nascent village of Seaside is an old-fashioned hamlet complete with a town square and a Greek Revival post office. The basic idea is simple and radical, even profound: although Seaside consists mainly of vacation houses, it is designed as a real town, not an arbitrary cluster of beachfront leisure units...
...Manhattan, the frame of a born-again Babcock barn climbs skyward in Fairfield, Conn. After eight years in their 200-year-old farmhouse, Advertising Executive Rick Baker and his wife Cathy called on Babcock to erect a colonial barn addition, which will hold a new living room and a cluster of bedrooms. They wanted more space, but they also wanted to respect the region's history...
...European foray to offset profits from operations in Britain. Firms in most E.U. nations commonly make use of losses in this way, but primarily to offset profits made in the same country as the losses. In 2001, the company cited Britain's "group relief" rules that allow firms to cluster different business units for tax purposes; if successful, the argument would have gained Marks & Spencer tax relief of about $56 million. But that same year, Britain's Inland Revenue said no, declaring that Marks & Spencer had no right to deduct its Continental losses because they hadn't been incurred...
...will it happen again? A: Almost certainly yes. "This is obviously a cluster of quakes," says Sieh. "The question now: Is it a cluster of two, or a cluster of more?" He points out that quakes tend to hit the region every 200 years or so. The last earthquakes to occur near the newly stressed area south of last week's temblor were in 1797 and 1833?meaning quakes could be primed to occur again soon. There's no way to tell when an earthquake will strike?scientists can measure the stress on a fault, but they don't know...