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Lakers team physician Dr. Michael Mellman stressed Johnson's leaving basketball was not a reflection on his immediate physical condition...
...What we witness today is a courageous act by a very special man," Mellman said. "Earvin Johnson has been infected with the AIDS virus...
...Mellman said the stress exerted on the body by professional basketball would not be good for Johnson's condition...
Johnson said he had learned Wednesday that he had tested positive for the human imuno-difficiency virus, or HIV. Mellman said the tests were taken as part of a routine life-insurance examination...
There are drawbacks. Negative ads can muddy a perpetrator's positive image. Such ads can repel as easily as they entice, driving away voters they were meant to attract. Dueling commercials between two candidates, says Mellman, can propel voters into the arms of a third. Negative ads during a primary, Squier notes, are dicier than similar ads during the general election; sniping at party comrades is never an ennobling sight...