Word: comfortable
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...perform invasive procedures to be tested for the virus. But critics pointed to the high cost of such widespread testing and argued that risk of medical professionals infecting their patients is so remote that Bergalis' dentist is the only one ever known to do so. That's small comfort for Kimberly...
...delightful unplanned camping trip." David Kay, head of a multinational team of 44 United Nations inspectors, had his tongue firmly planted in his cheek when he used those words. But it is true that the Iraqis did not attempt to molest Kay's team. The inspectors lounged in relative comfort aboard their air-conditioned bus, played touch football and stayed in communication with the outside world through a suitcase ground station that Kay had rigged up to bounce signals off satellites...
Sale goes on to note that "the Tainos' lives were in many ways as idyllic as their surroundings, into which they fit with such skill and comfort. They were well fed and well housed, without poverty or serious disease. They enjoyed considerable leisure, given over to dancing, singing, ballgames, and sex, and expressed themselves artistically in basketry, woodworking, pottery, and jewelry. They lived in general harmony and peace, without greed or covetousness or theft...
...were ignorant or incautious. The smart ones had a textbook. It was The Joy of Sex, a 1972 how-to "gourmet guide," written in breezy language by British physician Alex Comfort, who persuaded his readers that with a little imagination and a sense of adventure, lovemaking could be more fun than sex. Comfort was widely derided as a flaky guru who took the mystery out of sex by describing it with the exactitude of a cookbook recipe. But he had it right: The Joy of Sex, witty, fanciful and mercifully free of moralizing, sold more than 8 million copies...
...sexual revolution is history. The rebels have kids of their own, and they must learn that sex in the age of AIDS is hazardous. That is reason enough for Comfort to publish a timely reconsideration -- The New Joy of Sex: A Gourmet Guide to Lovemaking for the Nineties (Crown; $30). Comfort's message is that you can still have a lot of fun in bed, but you had better be careful. Casual coupling -- one-night stands, sex with strangers, group sex, sex without adequate precautions -- can be fatal...