Word: latex
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...fashion, a recent addition to the store's collection has been clothing and 'equipment' made of latex--according to Phelps, latex is what leather used to be. "You can buy leather in K-Mart now, so this is the new leather," she explains...
...protect patients and medical workers is to improve infection-control techniques and equipment, something that is needed to guard against not only AIDS but also other potentially deadly blood- borne illnesses like hepatitis B. Basic precautionary measures call for workers exposed to contaminated blood to wear gowns, masks and latex gloves and to discard used syringes in special containers. Medical personnel would like to see continued development of needles that automatically sheathe themselves once they are withdrawn from the skin and flexible scalpels that minimize the chance of accidental cuts. Some operating-room teams have begun to wear protective space...
...Catholic Church has been a vocal and irresponsible opponent of safe sex education since the beginning of this epidemic and is to blame for the deaths of many of our friends, our neighbors, our relatives and our lovers who never knew a piece of latex could have saved their lives...
...City Council ordinance passed last week will require all Cambridge restaurants, bars, hotels, health clinics or municipal buildings to carry "high-quality, affordable latex condoms" in vending machines...
...such absurdities, or else it makes no sense whatsoever. It's as if the director hopes to overpower the viewers with special effects so that they won't mind the obvious logical flaws. He seems to say, "You should be impressed by how much I've spent on latex and fake...