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...most misleading of the authors' assertions, however, fall in the chapter titled "Can You Catch AIDS from a Toilet Seat?" They accurately report that the risk of infection from a source other than sex, contaminated needles, blood or the womb is practically nil. But they proceed to describe in vivid detail how it might be "theoretically possible" to contract AIDS from, among other things, contact lenses, a salad in a restaurant or instruments in a doctor's office. The farfetched examples are so memorable that the caveats are quickly forgotten. Worse, the therapists call for mandatory AIDS tests...
Because of concern that its findings may be politicized if they are leaked before the November elections, the commission will proceed at a rather stately pace. A limited staff and the commission members' busy schedules will also slow progress. Cynics point out that the time frame for deliberations will excuse this Congress and President from making any difficult decisions in an election year...
Finally, the man asked the teller to please ring his little bell so that he would know to proceed to his window, at which point the teller told him that the bell was broken. But anality defies pragmatism, and so the man left in a snit, muttering something about system failures and anarchy...
...Moscow fully realizes, is in a tight spot. Says Zain Noorani, Pakistan's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs: "We don't just want an agreement, we want an agreement that can be implemented." Specifically, Pakistan needs the cooperation of the seven-party mujahedin alliance to proceed with the peace agreement. Yet the guerrilla leadership will not accept an agreement with Najib. If Pakistan deals with him anyway, the results will probably be chaotic. The rebels would lose their arms pipeline -- including the Stingers -- and face a potent Soviet force for at least several months. Continued fighting would deter...
...Senate reservations about the INF agreement are likely to be outweighed by the dire consequences of rejection. Speaking Friday, Jeane Kirkpatrick, a prominent conservative and former U.S. Representative to the U.N., admitted that she has doubts about aspects of the treaty. But failure to proceed at this point, said Kirkpatrick, would aggravate a deeper problem: fears in Europe that the U.S. has become essentially ungovernable. For the Senate, more is at stake than the treaty on the table...