Word: low
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...directors of University Health Services (UHS) say they can best fight AIDS within Harvard's population by teaching people how to avoid the virus. Pointing to earlier experiences with sexually transmitted diseases, they say the University community usually has low levels of infection and responds quickly to educational campaigns on health...
...finding corroborated a long-term trend of low rates of sexually transmitted disease at Harvard, Wacker says, a trend which he says may indicate how AIDS will affect the University community...
Past experience has shown that Harvard also has low incidences of such diseases as gonorrhea and syphilis, Wacker says. "The lower incidence of sexually transmitted diseases in general speaks to the fact that probably casual sex on a pick-up basis is not very common among the group. Otherwise we would have seen a higher level of incidence compared to the rest of the population," the director says...
...Back in the mid-1970s, we discovered that smoking among Harvard students was very low," Wacker says. UHS found that around 10 percent of Harvard students smoked when they entered the College--compared with 35 percent nationwide for their age group. By the middle of the decade, when the Surgeon General declared smoking caused cancer, Wacker says, "Most people had gone all the way through school hearing smoking caused cancer...
...played 45 minutes of great soccer, then we played 45 minutes of poor soccer," Getman said. "It's just like the whole season--high moments, low moments, playing well, then playing poorly...