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...additional 500,000 to 1 million Americans are symptomless carriers of the virus. What will happen to this group is the object of much speculation and study. "That's the million-dollar question," says Dr. Michael Lange of St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital in New York City. The guess is that 5% to 10% of people who do not have symptoms but do have antibodies to the virus (meaning they have been exposed) will develop AIDS within five years. There is no way to tell which ones will get it. "It's like Russian roulette with one bullet...
...virus spread from monkeys to man. Other viruses have made this leap--notably jungle yellow fever virus--and, he notes, the greens often live in close association with people and frequently bite them. How the disease might have traveled from Africa to the U.S. and Haiti is anybody's guess. One "intriguing" clue, says Dr. Peter Piot of the Institute for Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium, is that several thousand Haitians lived in Kinshasa, Zaïre, from the early 1960s to the mid-'70s, and most of them, he says, have since moved to North America and Europe. As another...
...couple of dives in the 10-meter platform prelims. He has explained, in his bashful, self-effacing way, that he is not really training. Headshaking here; sad to see a fine athlete on the downward slide. Uh-huh. But when the diving is finished a couple of days later, guess which bashful, self-effacing phenomenon has another two golds? The real surprise is that Michele Mitchell also wins two. She won the silver last summer in the 10 meter platform, and owns that event, but now she outclasses Teammate Kelly McCormick, another Olympic silver medalist, in the springboard...
...someone who just completed his junior year at Bennington College in Vermont. Ellis' book, set in the affluent Los Angeles suburbs where he grew up, chronicles a few days in the lives of a group of teenagers burned out on sex and drugs. "It can be taken, I guess, as a piece of sociology," he concedes. "A lot of teenagers hunger to be in that kind of group." As for the grownup pressures of his new success, he says straitlacedly, "You just have to keep writing. If you let stuff like that get in your head, you'll never write...
...Reds. But Rose, the player, would have been on strike. "I wasn't going to get the hit that way," he shudders. "I think most people will forgive me for breaking Cobb's record. From the beginning, didn't they say I played like an old-timer? I guess I was an old-timer before my time...