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Sununu was inaugurated into the computer age in 1965 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he majored in mechanical engineering and taught himself programming to help expedite his doctoral thesis on fluid mechanics. In 1969 he moved to New Hampshire, added Republican politics to his long list of interests, served in the state legislature, and in 1982 was elected Governor in an upset victory over the Democratic incumbent, Hugh Gallen...
Another area of AIDS research Hirsch is examining is transmission of the HTLV-III virus. HTLV-III is only known to be transmitted by contaminated blood and semen. Researchers have not yet determined whether the virus can be transmitted by female genital fluids, although Hirsch has found evidence that such fluid may contain the virus. The virus can, however, be transmitted from mother to unborn child, by contaminated needles and transfusions. Since April 1985, blood banks have screened blood donations for signs of the virus...
...anything about endometriosis is clear, it is that once the disease has begun, it will probably get worse. Stimulated by the release of estrogen, the implanted tissue grows and spreads. Cells from the growths break away and are ferried by lymphatic fluid throughout the body, sometimes, although rarely, forming islands in the lungs, kidneys, bowel or even the nasal passages. There they respond to the menstrual cycle, causing monthly bleeding from the rectum or wherever else they have settled...
...blond tonalities of the painting, its neutral, high and even light, are freighted with death. One realizes, subliminally at first, the likeness between the naked rabbit in a puddle of watery pink fluid on the plate and a fetus curled in its amniotic sac. But in a more general way, the pinkness of the rabbit is the rosiness of human nudity, and Lopez sets down every detail of it with an exact balance between detachment and anxiety. Nothing that can be seen is skimped--not even the freezer burns on the meat (which, Lopez explains, thawed...
Because of what a State Department officialcalled a "fluid situation" in Khartoum, officialsmade also plans for a reduction in the size of theofficial American community in the city...