Word: partner
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Rachel Kennedy, 32, is a working partner in a London bookshop. She lives alone in a snug flat over the store. She is astute, self-sufficient and discreet. Occasionally, when the mood is on her, Rachel goes cruising, though she puts the matter even less romantically: "I go out, seek companions, bear them home . . . No bourgeois sentiments for me, no noble passions." Elsewhere, Anita Brookner's questionable heroine pitches her case more strongly: "I had resolved at a very early stage never to be reduced to any form of emotional beggary, never to plead, never to impose guilt, and never...
...traced to sex between men and women not in these high-risk groups is very low -- about 4% -- and has remained stable. But just what is the risk? How contagious is AIDS? What are the odds of picking up the virus from a single sex act if one's partner turns out to be infected...
Striking new research, published last week in the quarterly journal AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses, may help explain why some AIDS carriers can go on having unprotected sex for years without passing the virus to a regular partner. Although it is known that enough of the virus appears in the bloodstream shortly after infection to spread the disease via blood transfusions, sexual transmission is a different matter. The new study, of 24 hemophiliac AIDS carriers, shows that despite repeated sexual contact without condoms, the wives or steady female partners of these men generally remained free of the virus for several...
None of this is to say that the risk of transmitting AIDS through heterosexual intercourse is not a serious one. Exactly how the virus is passed along, though, is still murky. Many researchers strongly suspect that an infected man can more easily pass the virus to a female sexual partner than vice versa. Certainly more women have got the disease from men than men from women: women make up 75% of those who have contracted AIDS through heterosexual intercourse. Researchers have speculated that the virus is more concentrated in semen than in vaginal secretions and that the mucous membranes lining...
...reason for this mistaken identity is that my very existence has to remain a secret to keep the government scientists off my case. I have managed it through a brilliant scam: practically everyone thinks I'm a puppet! Sustaining this conspiracy takes a few collaborators. My main partner is a onetime comic magician named Paul Fusco. He actually claims to have invented me. Sure, he talks like me, laughs like me, jokes like me, even sort of looks like me. But I'm 230 years old and he's 35, barely old enough to have a bar catzvah back home...