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...opportunistic diseases, normally warded off by a healthy immune system, attacks the body. Gradually weakened by the onslaught, the AIDS victim dies, sometimes in months, but almost always within a few years of the first symptoms. By last week this appalling scenario had been played out to its fatal conclusion in some 15,000 Americans. Another 11,500 were under assault, showing the telltale symptoms of the disease, and from 1 million to 2 million others harbored the virus, vulnerable at any time to a final, all-out attack...
...headlines, the Muscular Dystrophy Association announced another important find. A group of scientists, led by Louis Kunkel of Boston Children's Hospital, had discovered the gene that, when defective, causes Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The discovery may lead to an effective treatment, even a cure, for the crippling and usually fatal disorder that afflicts 200,000 people in the U.S., most of them young boys...
...AIDS virus pose a serious problem for the military in another way. In conflict situations all personnel are considered walking blood banks. If no blood is available for casulties, the injured are dependent on their healthy comrades to provide it. But receiving AIDS-infected blood may eventually prove fatal, although the initial injury should not have. This point alone shows that the military's concern is based on more than the unfounded homophobia associated with AIDS...
...newfound view of the Soviets as possibly malleable rivals has combined with his deeply held conviction that Russians as human beings cannot help succumbing to the irresistible benefits of American democratic capitalism. This remarkable inner confidence -- both in himself and in the system he champions -- may be the fatal flaw in the Reagan approach to the Soviets, although it served him well in Geneva in his first encounter with Gorbachev...
...wife exclaims, "Herman, you look terrible! What happened?" He replies that his partner, Ralph, succumbed to a fatal heart attack on the ninth green...