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...military experience after medical school which sparked Murray's interest in tissue and organ transplantation. Stationed at the Valley Forge, N.Y., General Hospital in 1944, Murray treated soldiers suffering from severe burns and became fascinated with the body's rejection of foreign skin...

Author: By Virginia A. Triant, | Title: Nobel Winner Murray Recalls Med School | 6/8/1993 | See Source »

...gathered to watch have started to drift away. Hoping to rekindle some heat, one bystander tentatively approaches Annabeth and slips his hand under her sweater. But rejection in cyberspace can be uniquely swift and stinging: Annabeth types back that she is snapping off her suitor's sex organ and tossing it over her shoulder. So much for safe romance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Orgies On-Line | 5/31/1993 | See Source »

...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 outside...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AIDS Article Misinformed and Irresponsible | 5/26/1993 | See Source »

Cohn is at once the play's villain and hero. Ron Leibman, in the role of his career, makes the ruthless lawyer a delinquent child, waggling his tongue, mocking his superiors, cackling as he spews abuse, playing the telephone like an organ as he hypocritically curries or grandiosely dispenses favor. Stephen Spinella as the sick, saintly queen and Joe Mantello as his unhinged lover are endlessly watchable, nakedly real. Alas, David Marshall Grant and Marcia Gay Harden are ciphers as the Mormons, he as stolid as wood and she vibrating like Jell-O; neither offers insight into the pain that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gay White Way | 5/17/1993 | See Source »

Agitprop has supervised a wide variety of events. They kicked off the year by spiffing up the midnight Halloween organ concert at the Busch-Reisinger Museum, projecting slides of grotesque paintings on the ceiling to enhance the cerie atmosphere. The Fogg has also encouraged their efforts, and Agitprop has organized a series of professorled discussions on works pulled from the museum's stored collection. Agitprop emphasizes that these discussions operate on a "passionate" rather than academic level, and that everyone's individual response is considered and appreciated. Also, the professors are not art historians, but instead discuss their "hobby-level...

Author: By Edith Replogle, | Title: Culture Shock | 5/14/1993 | See Source »

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