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...fear of AIDS. If a citizen caught the incurable disease from a prisoner, explained Commissioner Ray Moore, the county might be sued. Despite evidence that the AIDS virus can be transmitted only through an exchange of blood or semen, Moore claimed that "the danger was great," even though the likelihood of anyone's having intimate contact with convicts on a road crew would seem slight...
...above scene will, in all likelihood, not appear in next week's episode of Dallas. Bel Geddes this fall reclaimed the role she originated (Reed replaced her last season when Bel Geddes withdrew for health reasons), and even TV soap operas generally observe a basic law of physics: two actors cannot occupy the same role at the same time. Still, one can never be too sure. Strange things happen when aging shows begin casting around for ways to keep viewers interested...
Professor of Health Care Policy Ronald Kessler, a co-author of the project, says foster children’s greater likelihood of mental health risks is primarily based upon the experiences, such as neglect and abuse, that children face before entering the foster system...
...researchers, including first author Susan S. Huang, an instructor at HMS in Infectious Diseases and an attending physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, designed a regression model showing that the likelihood of carrying pneumococcus may be predicted with better success at the community level than at the individual level...
...doctored photo of her with John Kerry at a supposed Vietnam War protest circulated on the Internet, she knows she's still too politically hot to support any candidate publicly. (She "hopes for a Hillary Clinton presidency," but a decade of red-state living makes her doubt its likelihood.) Instead, Fonda spends most of her free time at the multiplex (she loved The Aviator and Finding Neverland) or with her family. Her once contentious relationship with daughter Vanessa Vadim, 36, has improved. Vadim and her two young children, as well as Fonda's other daughter, Mary Luana Williams (known...