Word: kokomo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...public understandably became terrified and overreacted. Children with AIDS from Queens to Kokomo were barred from attending school. Police officers donned rubber gloves when apprehending drug abusers thought to be infected with the AIDS virus. Churchgoers declined the Communion wine they had once quaffed from their common cups. Everything from Florida's mosquitoes to food touched by gay waiters was suspected of carrying the virus...
...time hit album, can now take Live/1975-85 and play an extraordinarily exciting game of catch-up. 4th of July, Asbury Park, which dates back to the "Boss's" second album, released in 1973, has never sounded more poignant or evocative of all its epiphanies down on the Kokomo than it does here, in a performance recorded at a New Year's Eve concert in New York City six years ago. Springsteen fans of long standing, however, will be more quickly absorbed in the implicit emotional trajectory of the record...
When Ryan White of Kokomo, Ind., returned to school last winter, after being diagnosed with AIDS, he was greeted first by picketers and then a court order barring the young hemophiliac from the premises. But all was quiet last week when the 14-year-old walked through the doors of Western High School for the start of eighth-grade classes. "He's going to be a regular student like everyone else," said Principal Charles Wolf. True, Ryan's reinstatement resulted from another court order, and true, AIDS victims around the country still face formidable prejudices. But the calm in Indiana...
...struck 17,000 Americans, killing nearly half of them. But even more rampant than the deadly disease itself is a secondary epidemic: fear. AIDS patients around the country have become society's new untouchables. Workers have been fired; babies abandoned; children, like Ryan White of Kokomo, Ind., banned from school. The fears have persisted despite assurances from doctors that AIDS has been known to spread almost exclusively through sexual contact and exposure to infected blood. A poll taken last summer showed that nearly half of Americans thought they could get the disease by drinking from a glass used...
...from the classroom. Washington Borough in New Jersey turned away a four-year-old girl with AIDS- related complex (ARC) and her nine-year-old brother, even though he is not ill. In Washington, a child with AIDS is tutored alone in a separate room at school, and in Kokomo, Ind., a 13-year-old hemophiliac with the disease has been instructed at home over a phone hookup...