Word: person
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...protester who rushed toward former Contra leader Adolfo Calero, ending his speech at the Law School last fall, pled guilty in Cambridge District Court last Thursday to charges of disturbing a school and being a disorderly person...
...with other nations, its pile of disposable diapers, melon rinds, grass clippings, plastic hamburger boxes, broken mattresses and discarded tires came to 1,547 lbs. for every man, woman and child in the country. Only Australians came close to producing as much waste: a prodigious 1,498 lbs. per person. The average West German or Japanese threw away about half as much. But even the U.S. figure pales next to that of California, where some calculations have the average citizen throwing away 2,555 lbs. a year. Says Attorney Jill Ratner, who is active in environmental causes: "In Los Angeles...
...should be in it," she admits, and in the past, she has consulted a psychiatrist for problems she experienced in recovering from a bereavement. But former Matron Helen Willans insists that since Dame Cicely was married for the first time eight years ago, "she has been a much happier person." She shows immense tenderness to her husband, bringing him to the hospice every day from their home nearby to paint in an upstairs studio. His pictures adorn nearly every wall in St. Christopher's, a blaze of colorful Crucifixions and abstracts that, she says, "are icons of life...
Victims of these practices counter that testing positive does not necessarily mean a person will develop AIDS. Nor does the presence of carriers, or even those who have come down with AIDS, endanger the workplace, critics insist, because medical evidence indicates that the virus cannot be transmitted by casual contact. Discrimination on the basis of the blood tests may actually harm public health, they warn. "If you fear you are going to lose your job and just about everything else in your life," says Katherine Franke of the New York City Human Rights Commission, "there is no incentive to take...
...searches. In June a federal district court in Los Angeles produced a major victory for foes of AIDS tracing in addressing the claim of a gay man who was tossed out of an alcohol rehabilitation program at Centinela Hospital in Inglewood, Calif. Judge Pamela Ann Rymer ruled that a person fingered by an AIDS test can be protected by the federal Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which bars discrimination against the handicapped by institutions receiving federal funds. "For the first time, a federal court has ruled that fear of contagion cannot form the basis for discrimination against seropositives," says Mickey Wheatley...