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...virus which causes AIDS, is primarily transmitted though vaginal or anal intercourse without a condom or through sharing intravenous needles with an infected person. It may also be passed from mother to baby during pregnancy or labor, and possibly through breast feeding. The remaining routes of transmission (blood transfusion, oral sex, organ transplant, etc.) present only extremely minor risks (on the order of one in hundreds of thousands). There is an insufficient amount of the virus in saliva and even an "open" blister to present a danger of transmission. Compared to other viruses, HIV survives only a very short time...
Dean for Undergraduate Education Lawrence Buell said the process of developing an "oral competency test" will begin this summer with examinations of other institutions' policies on the issue...
Merwin speaks as he writes--in long strands of clauses. And he writes in imitation of the spoken word. "The main current in poetry," he says," and the kind of poetry that really matters to me can't ever lose that pole that's in the oral--it's in the spoken word." He doesn't punctuate his poetry for this reason...
...entire 25-page translation. Elsewhere in the report are disclosures about efforts to recruit South Vietnamese politicians as agents, planned assassinations and programs to collect and publish information on American "crimes." Because there are references to a "speaker," the Russian report may well be an inexact transcription of an oral briefing, which could account for the inflated number of POWs...
...remain skeptical. "We think it's an authentic document," says a Pentagon official involved in POW affairs, "but we have a lot of questions about the data in it." Defense Intelligence Agency analysts note a certain informality in the text, suggesting it might actually be a transcription of an oral briefing by General Quang...