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...There is a time lag," he says. "And it will take a while to work itself through...
...have been disturbed by such news, there is in fact little danger from transfusions and transplants. Blood and donated organs and tissues are routinely screened for the AIDS virus. Still, there is no way to remove all threat from these procedures. One problem is that there is a lag of up to six months from the time a person is infected with HIV until blood tests can detect antibodies. Since blood banks began screening for the virus in 1985, 15 people of the estimated 24 million who have had transfusions have been infected from blood that had passed...
...weeks ago, Sen. Michael J. Barrett '70 (D--Cambridge) proposed to Beacon Hill's Joint Committee on Education a measure to increase the school year in the state by 40 days, citing ever-widening gaps in standardized test scores between American students and their international peers. This educational lag, Barrett says, spells trouble for the future of the economy...
...sometimes do little to quell. During a 10-day visit to the U.S. in 1989, Yeltsin marred an otherwise impressive performance with a gauche display of his erratic nature: his speech was badly slurred at a breakfast meeting in Baltimore, the combined result of Jack Daniel's and jet lag. That episode prompted Soviet analysts at the White House to dismiss Yeltsin as a lightweight and to underrate his political skills...
...deemed the probable cause of the 1988 head-on collision of two Conrail freight trains near Thompsontown, Pa., a crash that cost four lives and $6 million. Long plane flights that cross through many time zones are more common than ever, and they often leave pilots suffering from jet lag. Yet today's highly automated cockpits require pilots to be especially vigilant in monitoring dials and digital displays. Says one pilot for an international air courier: "There have been times I've been so sleepy I was nodding off as we were taxiing to get into takeoff position...