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HARVARD'S 25th reunion book is usually a handsome hardcover volume, packed with typeset tales of alumni success and glossy then-now pictures. By comparison, Radcliffe produces a typed, xeroxed pamphlet bound in plastic and filled with rough pages, devoid of the crimson and prestige so integral to Harvard's past...
Because the machines are being installed during exam period, the distribution of an information pamphlet about AIDS and the use of condoms will be delayed until next semester, Slotnick said...
Like Koop's straight-shooting AIDS report released in 1986, the HHS primer, which is geared to the reading level of seventh-graders, does not mince words. "No matter what you may have heard, the AIDS virus is hard to get and is easily avoided," the pamphlet says. "You won't get AIDS from clothes, a telephone or from a toilet seat." Instead, the virus is transmitted by "sharing drug needles and syringes; anal sex, with or without a condom; and vaginal or oral sex with someone who shoots drugs or engages in anal...
...reaction to the pamphlet, which is called Understanding AIDS and is also published in Spanish, has been largely positive. Some groups are sure to be offended by its blunt explicitness and its hearty endorsement of condoms. Republican Congressman William Dannemeyer of California calls portions of the report "irresponsible and unscientific." Most health officials, however, have praised the effort. At least no one who bothers to read the booklet can any longer plead ignorance about one of the nation's biggest health problems...
...surgeon announces the promising debut of a miniature heart pump that can save lives. -- An AIDS pamphlet for every U. S. home...