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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sexual spread of AIDS may have rendered moot the need to widely disseminate condoms. Educational programs in the gay community and elsehwere are turning AIDS into less and less of a sexual disease. A recalculation of New York City's AIDS statistics in October found that contrary to prior (and popular) belief, the disease is killing far more I.V. drug users than homosexual and bisexual...

Author: By Steven Lichtman, | Title: Political Machines | 12/10/1987 | See Source »

Students and faculty also note that while other schools take students right out of college, the Institute requires prior professional experience (the average age of the students...

Author: By Michael A. Levitt, | Title: Teaching the ART of Acting | 12/10/1987 | See Source »

Matthew E. Stasior '87, an associate consultant at Bain Consulting worked for Salomon Brothers during the summer prior to his senior year, but was not "in love with the hours that financial analysts work" and also did not like the idea of living in New York...

Author: By Lisa J. Goodall, | Title: Recruiting Reflects Stock Market Crash | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

...nature of her best fiction. And it is nice to know that there is more where this comes from. The Newspaper of Claremont Street is the eighth Jolley book, including six other novels and a collection of stories, to be released in the U.S. in the past three years. Prior to 1984, she was one of Australia's best-kept literary secrets. Now her international reputation has edged past the cultish toward the catapult of runaway acclaim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Flowerings the Newspaper of Claremont Street | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

...Lazarchick's case, the potential rewards seemed worth the gamble. "She was young, and we had a frozen graft that perfectly matched her joint," Schmidt says. The hospital's bone bank is one of several hundred nationwide. With prior consent, doctors routinely remove bones from patients who die suddenly, check them for infections such as hepatitis and AIDS, encase them in plastic and store them at -112 degreesF in freezers. Though the living tissue is killed by the extreme cold, the bone's structure survives. Thus, once surgeons implant the new graft, tissue rejection -- the unforgiving nemesis of most transplant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Gamble Against Uncertain Odds | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

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