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Until vaccines become available, many doctors urge that a combination of condoms and spermicides be used to prevent sexual transmission of AIDS. Laboratory tests show that nonoxynol-9, the active ingredient in many U.S. spermicides, can prevent the virus from reproducing. A more potent product, under development by Exovir in Great Neck, N.Y., would contain both nonoxynol- 9 and alpha interferon, a combination that compounds the killing effect. Pharmatex, a spermicide sold in Europe and Africa, also appears to inhibit the virus in the test tube...
...fairness to the Crimson, though, the Eagles probably have the nation's most potent offense, and two of those three losses went into overtime...
Princeton sports one of the most potent first lines in the ECAC. First-line center John Messuri leads the league in scoring with a 15-18--33 line. His linemate, Greg Polaski, is among the top 10 ECAC scores with 13 goals and 11 assists...
...violence that South Africa's blacks are inflicting on one another in segregated townships across the country. The bloodshed has made ungovernable many of the townships in which the country's 24 million blacks are forced to live and has given the government of State President P.W. Botha a potent propaganda weapon. Invariably referring to the slaughter as "black-on-black" violence, officials suggest that it proves blacks are too uncivilized to rule one another, much less the whites...
...country's 37.5 million citizens are hard-drug users and addicts, most of them under 25. Virtually all are hooked on kompot, a form of heroin made by combining household chemicals with poppy stalks. Boiling the mixture produces a brownish liquid that, when injected, produces a potent high...