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...gauge cotton coveralls, they trudged across the cracked earth of the San Joaquin Valley seeking the killers. Some of the searchers took to the air, combing an area of 400 sq. mi. by helicopter. The enemy sought by the scientific task force was as dangerous as it was tiny: ill-tempered, Africanized killer bees that may have landed in central California, jeopardizing crops and perhaps lives...
...first in Helsinki, he appeared nervous and ill at ease. When he entered Finlandia Hall's blue-and-white main auditorium, he looked so diffident that some onlookers mistook him for a diplomatic aide. One who did not make that error was Shultz, who strode purposefully from his front-row seat to shake hands with the Foreign Minister and introduce himself. When a journalist asked Shevardnadze to stop and answer questions, the Foreign Minister shrugged, grinned and replied, "They won't let me," apparently a reference to his aides...
...disease is spread. Are there, for example, certain periods of time when a person is more infectious than others? Many answers will be found within the next year or so, predicts Curran. "We'll know the risk of a pregnant mother in delivering a healthy infant vs. an ill one or a stillborn. We'll be able to quantify those kinds of things...
...role in African AIDS." Many of the affected males, he notes, are "heterosexuals who have a large number of sexual partners." Virologist Myron Essex of the Harvard school of public health thinks that as many as one out of every 20 people is infected (though not necessarily ill) in Africa's "AIDS belt," which also includes parts of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. Some researchers see this as "a foretaste" of what will occur in the U.S., but many disagree. They point to Third World conditions that may promote the disease. Among them: the presence of feces in drinking water...
AIDS victims are treated like lepers even by some in the medical community. Ambulance workers in several cities have refused to transport desperately ill patients to hospitals. Hospital orderlies are reluctant to clean their rooms. Nurses are wary. When a friend visiting an AIDS patient in a Los Angeles hospital stepped out into the corridor to fill a water pitcher for him, he was shouted at by a nurse. "That pitcher should never leave that damn room!" she screamed. "How dare you jeopardize...