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There are ways in which this tribalistic view of human sexuality is useful and possibly progressive. Before the gay-rights movement, homosexuality was conceived as a diffuse menace, attached to no particular group and potentially threatening everyone, at least in its "latent" form. So, naturally, as gays came out, they insisted on a unique and prideful group identity: We're queer, and we're here! How else do you get ahead in America except by banding together and hoisting a flag...
...mattered for formal reasons. Iron is quintessentially structure, not mass. Inside every figure produced by the academies had been a leaner, more abstract presence -- the wire armature on which the clay or plaster was built, hidden by the later work of representation. Just as Michelangelo had imagined the figure latent in the raw marble block, hidden by the superfluities of stone, so it fell to Picasso, Gonzalez and others to imagine a second structure within the conventionally sculpted figure: a kind of iron essence, expressed in line and plane rather than continuous surface, in openness rather than solidity...
Tuberculosis, a respiratory disease, is increasing in frequency in the U.S. Zuromskis said people infected with latent tuberculosis have a 10 percent chance of developing the active form of he illness later in life...
Zuromskis said he strongly suggested that all User Services workers take a skin test to determine whether they have latent tuberculosis. Thirty-five of the 120 User Services employees have been tested...
...Last September TIME profiled the region when it was targeted by both the Clinton and Bush campaigns as a critical swing county in a critical state. Among the 96,000 registered Democrats, 66,000 Republicans and 173,000 independents, concern over the economy won out over the county's latent conservatism. Clinton took 41% of the vote, vs. Bush's 40% and Perot...