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Juniors Jane Grim and Leelee Groome played solidly, if sometimes brutally, in the backfield and will be back...
...offer valuable clues to a central riddle. The AIDS virus does not appear to reproduce in insects, he said; if scientists could find out why, they could perhaps develop an AIDS treatment. Such a solution is a long way off, though, and the prognosis for AIDS victims remains grim. Their comforts must be derived chiefly from the effort to live as normally as possible in the face of a ticking clock -- an exhausting enough business without prejudice or the threat of quarantine. "It's great," said Ryan White when asked how he liked being back in school...
...painstaking and dangerous cleanup operation provided a grim backdrop for the Vienna talks. Throughout the week, the Soviets stuck to the assertion in their written report that the accident could easily have been avoided. In a five-hour presentation, Legasov explained that the operators of the Chernobyl reactor, while testing a turbine generator, had systematically disconnected all safety systems. That left nothing to prevent the accident after a huge power surge shot through the facility, setting off explosions and fires. Said Legasov: "The defect of the system was that the designers did not foresee the awkward and silly actions...
Fear of AIDS on the job is diminishing most quickly in larger U.S. cities, where familiarity with the disease is highest. But before long, the grim likelihood is that businesses in all parts of the country will have to learn to deal with AIDS. New corporate attitudes about what to do with afflicted workers are likely to spread roughly at the same rate as the disease itself...
...Robert Pritchett, coach of the Clark College basketball team in Atlanta and a onetime high school star, the Bias-Tribble relationship is a grim sign of changing times. "I remember when I was coming up. The night before a game, some guys would be standing on the corner drinking a bottle of wine. I would try to get a sip, and a brother would say, 'You can't have none of this. You've got a game tomorrow. You've got to be at your best. You've got a future.' Twenty years ago Len Bias would not have been...