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...BASKETBALL, I ENJOY watching a legend play. Although Johnson is respected by many and retains much of the skill he once had, the facts are still there. He's infected with one of the worst viruses known to the human race. All it would take is a bloody nose or a small cut and someone else might wind up paying for Johnson's mistakes. To those who point out we deal with this type of thing every day, I agree. However, there is a great difference between the casual contacts of normal life and high-impact sports. BRIAN PUSKAS Kearny...
APPARENTLY, I'VE BEEN GIVING THE WRONG ADVICE about what to do if you meet a bear in the woods. It may be that a sharp jab to the bear's nose is not the ticket after...
Boxing--professional or otherwise--presents a special case, however. The force of the blows often exposes mucous membranes in the nose and eyes. In fact, one of the few known cases of transmission through nonsexual physical contact occurred after two brothers, one of whom had advanced AIDS, got into a vicious fight. The infected brother, who would have had tens of millions of virus particles in his blood, repeatedly bashed his head against his brother's. Both men bled profusely into each other's eyes and open wounds. Soon after, the previously uninfected brother tested positive for the virus...
...irony of one musical number--a trio of 'female' characters singing a pseudofeminist song called "HIStory (History's His Story First)." I had the inescapable impression that the Pudding's male producers, male authors, male composer, male orchestrators and all-male cast were implicitly thumbing their collective nose at all women, even the few who toiled along in the pit orchestra...
...argument for Socrates' African origins, for example, is based largely on posthumous portraits that show him having a snub nose and broad mouth. But this is hardly conclusive, Lefkowitz contends, since the Greeks also portrayed the Scythians of Russia as having these supposedly Negroid features. Moreover, if Socrates had been part African, that fact would surely have been satirized by his critics, like the comic playwright Aristophanes...