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...regular chess circuit, matching wits only with humans. It has a solid master's rating of 2376, well behind former World Chess Champion Mikhail Tal, the top-ranked player in this tournament, with a 2700 rating, but Hitech is a dangerous enough competitor to have caused a minor furor last August by scoring a first-place finish in the Pennsylvania State Chess Championship. It is the 22nd-ranked player in the National Open...
...current furor, says Bernie Zilbergeld, an Oakland psychologist and longtime critic of Masters and Johnson, stems from what he terms their "chronic inability to be precise." For example, he asks, how do they know that their 400 nonmonogamous study subjects were not bisexuals or IV drug abusers? Epidemiologists long ago learned that people often admit to risky behavior only after they have been told they test positive. Yet Masters and Johnson did not extensively question their subjects about high-risk behavior...
...danger is that the furor will divert attention and resources from the real heterosexual epidemic -- the one raging in the inner city among IV drug abusers, their sexual partners and children. The alarmist prophecies promoted in Crisis may discredit ongoing efforts to control the disease. "This plants the seeds of distrust in a group that the public should be able to look to for answers," argues Mervyn Silverman, former San Francisco public health director. Crying wolf, as Masters and Johnson have done, is no way to fight an epidemic...
...furor began last fall after the controversial Bohemian Club for the first time made available a list of its members, which included several Stanford faculty members...
...Austria's shaky coalition government seemed to harbor serious doubts about the President. Fritz Rucker, vice chairman of the pro-Waldheim People's Party in Salzburg, quit to protest what he called "false slavish loyalty" toward Waldheim. Chancellor Franz Vranitzky, who heads the Socialists, threatened to resign unless the furor over Waldheim died down...