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...transfusions of blood or blood products. Only 1% of American men and 10% of women with AIDS were infected in this way, and the numbers are likely + to dwindle. All blood donated for transfusions is now being subjected to a test to detect exposure to the virus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not an Easy Disease to Come By | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

...mysterious ways, and everything, everyone, becomes suspect: a toilet seat, a child's cut, an act of love. Life slips into science fiction. People begin acting like characters in the first reel of The Invasion of the Body Snatchers. They peer intently at one another as if to detect the telltale change, the secret lesion, the sign that someone has crossed over, is not himself anymore, but one of them, alien and lethal. In the plague mentality, one belongs either to the kingdom of life or to the kingdom of death. So the state of mind glints with a certain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Start of a Plague Mentality | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

Gammill believes he has broken new ground. "Until now no one has been able to detect or transcribe emotion from a stock-performance chart," he says. Gammill is now setting the market performance of Exxon and Coca-Cola to music. Investors looking for a new stock may soon ask, "How does that stock sound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stocks: Rhapsody in Big Blue | 9/16/1985 | See Source »

...warhead is hardly larger than a coffee can. But jammed inside the 12-in. by 13-in. cylinder are 64 tiny rockets, eight high-powered telescopes and a targeting device so sensitive that it can detect the warmth of a distant star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Kill a Satellite | 9/2/1985 | See Source »

...satellite to pass over their fixed missile launch pads, which could take up to twelve hours. The U.S. missile can reach its target within ten minutes of launch. The Soviet rocket takes as long as three hours. Furthermore, the Soviets use a radar homing device that is easier to detect, and thus counter, than the heat sensor employed by the U.S. The Soviets are trying to develop an infrared homing system but their prototype has failed in six tests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Kill a Satellite | 9/2/1985 | See Source »

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