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...mosquitoes, which carry such diseases as malaria and yellow fever, also transport the deadly AIDS virus? The question arose in 1985, when the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta studied an unusually dense clustering of AIDS sufferers in the mosquito-infested area of Belle Glade, Fla. Last week the Atlanta Constitution stirred up the mosquito scare anew by publishing the preliminary findings of a research team sponsored by the National Institutes of Health. Its tentative conclusion: the AIDS virus can indeed ride as a passenger on the blood-sucking mosquito...
There was a dissenting voice, however. In poverty-stricken Belle Glade, Fla., Dr. Mark Whiteside hailed the French finding as confirmation that insects could transmit AIDS and may be that area's chief cause of infection. Belle Glade (pop. 19,000) has a higher percentage of AIDS victims than Manhattan. The Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control has studied mosquito- ridden Belle Glade and attributes the AIDS rate to sexual activity or drug use. But, claims Whiteside, director of the area's Tropical Disease Clinic, many victims "are older individuals who are way past their sexually active years." He acknowledges...
...secret conceit of every voyager to imagine that he alone has found the world's last paradise, it is the second to believe that the door has slammed shut right behind him. A paradise is by its nature a fine and private place, a deserted island or a solitary glade; Adam and Eve would have seemed considerably less charmed had they been surrounded by squawking kids, knickknack vendors and a row of time-share condos. Every visitor hopes to keep his idyl to himself; he's in heaven, and hell is other people. "The place is a Utopia...
Into coming and hiking? Forget tourist-clotted Rocky Mountain Park. Instead, head south on Route 135 out of skitown Crested Buite. Go left at Almont, past Taylor Park Reservoir. At the lake, go right. A bumpy seven-mile dirt road brings you through a glade into Tin Cup. Yes, that is its name. A half-doezen log cabins nestle at the Western foot of the Sawatch Range. There's an ice-cold brook to drink from, and miles of meadows and mountain trails to explore...
Volunteers in Spokane, Wash., Muscatine, Iowa, and Washington led local tours of hypothetical nuclear devastation. Hundreds of black, helium-filled balloons were released in Houston and Chapel Hill, N.C., each balloon carrying a note about windswept nuclear fallout. In Belle Glade, Fla. (pop. 18,000), as in many communities, local churches sponsored a showing of The Last Epidemic, a film distributed by Physicians for Social Responsibility about nuclear war's medical horrors. Doctors from several hospitals described the same bleak scenario at a rally in Philadelphia...