Word: orall
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tend to worry a lot more about the health hazards of anal sex than oral. Everybody knows, after all, that it's much easier for the virus that causes AIDS to cross the lining of the rectum than to infect someone through the mouth. Or is it? The surprising results of a study on rhesus monkeys published last week in Science not only suggest otherwise but also underscore how little scientists know about how, at the microscopic level, HIV spreads from one person to the next...
Once the theses have been evaluated, many departments also require oral exams. In some cases, it is a thesis defense. In others, it is merely a review of knowledge in the student's particular field. In many departments, oral exams are only given to students who are eligible, or close to eligible, for the summa degree...
...says she lost her summa candidacy when she had to face an hour-long oral exam...
...kind of strange, because they were trying to do it like a thesis defense," recounts Chen, whose thesis consisted of original poetry. Of her three oral graders, only one had read Chen's work...
...think it would have helped if they had read it," says Chen. "They weren't experts in contemporary American poetry. I think it would have been more helpful if I'd had a more general oral...