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While reported adult AIDS cases occur predominantly among males -- there are seven infected men for every infected woman -- the profile of the disease among urban teens is more mixed, much like AIDS in Africa. There are three teenage males to every female with the virus, according to Dr. Karen Hein of Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, who founded the nation's first adolescent AIDS clinic. "We are seeing more younger girls, sometimes 14-year- olds," says Hein. "Among teens, a far greater number of cases are spread by heterosexual...
...what sociologist Jack Douglas of the University of California at San Diego calls "a degree of self-centered moralism that is unprecedented in American history." Douglas worries whether the pendulum will ever swing back the other way. Among other things, he notes, the new forms of personal intolerance occur at a time when the common bonds of U.S. society -- our shared values, our political understandings -- seem weaker than ever. "Maybe," he glooms, "America is too large and diverse to be one country under democracy any longer...
...society is safe from an environmental catastrophe like the one that befell the Sacramento. Each year more than 1.5 million carloads of poisons, solvents, pesticides and other hazardous materials are hauled across the U.S. by train. Given the sheer volume of traffic, accidental chemical releases are inevitable, and they occur at the rate of about three a day. In 1988 there were 1,015 toxic rail spills; last year there were 1,254 such incidents, an increase of nearly...
TONI CHILDS has done something tougher than just make another terrific record here. She has beat the jinx. Her debut album in 1988, Union, was one of those comet-like appearances that occur more frequently in pop music than they do in the firmament, leaving the listener simultaneously dazzled and wondering, a bit uneasily, if she could ever do it again. Many don't, after all. But then, it's becoming increasingly clear that Toni Childs plays only by her own rules. HOUSE OF HOPE (A&M) is a record about emotional battering: in love, in childhood, in marriage...
...rush to legislate a case of hysterical overreaction? Nothing has happened to make researchers change their minds on how the AIDS virus is spread. Almost all infections occur in the expected ways: people share contaminated needles or have unprotected sex with an HIV-positive partner. "The risk of getting AIDS from your doctor is lower than the risk of dying in a car crash on the way to the hospital," says Dr. James Mason, Assistant Secretary for Health at the Department of Health and Human Services...