Word: contacts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hazardous as intercourse, but nothing to be casual about. The partner performing oral sex is more at risk because he or she comes into contact with vaginal or seminal fluids. The virus can pass from those fluids into cuts in the mouth. Those receiving oral sex are exposed only to saliva...
...AIDS virus is not found in sweat. So health-club members need not worry about who last rode the exercise bike. But in contact sports where bloody injuries can occur -- such as boxing, football and basketball -- it's possible for the virus to pass from one athlete to another. The risk appears to be extremely small: the Olympics' chief medical officer said last week that Magic Johnson would be welcome to play in the 1992 Games...
...other democratic nations must maintain some contact with China if only to provide incentives against its taking even more objectionable steps and to help educate a younger generation of leaders in dealing with the West. But the transition could be lengthy, and the gerontocrats will do their best to fight off the "spiritual pollution" of liberal ideas and the haunting conspiracy of peaceful evolution...
...overseer questions Whitehead's claim that closer contact between the two bodies means more influence for the overseers, saying, "What will happen is not that the Corporation will share power, but that the Corporation will run the University and the Board will go back to being a rubber stamp...
...instantly to admit to his condition, and unprompted. And he is certainly the most famous: even people with no interest in basketball recognize his name and smile. In addition, because he would not discuss how he might have contracted the disease but only implied it was from heterosexual contact, he drove home the fact that anyone is vulnerable...