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...great is the risk of the AIDS virus being transmitted between male and female sex partners? Americans have been told both not to worry and, in a sensationalized book by Sexologists Dr. William Masters and Virginia Johnson, that AIDS is "running rampant" among heterosexuals. Now Dr. Norman Hearst and Dr. Stephen Hulley of the University of California at San Francisco have calculated the odds of heterosexual transmission. Last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association they reported that the chance of getting AIDS ranges from 1 in 500 for a single act of intercourse with an infected partner...
Republicans may whine about the "gloom and doom" and the rampant inflation of the Carter years. Soaring inflation and interest rates during the Carter years had less to do with national policies than with an unfavorable world financial scene caused by the energy crisis. And the drop in oil prices during the Reagan years, likewise, should not be credited to the Administration...
...influence-peddling officials, ideologues-gone-astray, and just plain crooks--from Michael Deaver, Lyn Nofziger, and Edwin Meese to Oliver North, John Poindexter, and William Casey to Anne Gorsuch, Rita Lavelle, and Raymond Donovan. Carter got Lance to resign, even after he was found innocent, while Reagan ignored rampant corruption...
...write the truth when, at the beginning of Crisis, they say that much that has been written on AIDS is incorrect. Even more of the writing on the subject is misleading. Unfortunately this study only adds to the mounting toll of misinformation the disease. Their claim that AIDS is "rampant" in the heterosexual population is unsubstantiated by their research; their treatment of the ways in which AIDS is spread is irresponsible, and their recommendations are ill-advised. Their evidence does show that the public is not modifying its sexual behavior to prevent infection and it should be taken seriously...
...This virus is rampant," says Dr. Stephen Curry of the New England Medical Center in Boston. "If it weren't for AIDS, stories about it would be on the front page of every newspaper." The doctor is referring to a fast-spreading blight that afflicts millions of Americans, including more and more teenage girls. Caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV), it is sexually transmitted, sometimes painful and often incurable. Its chief symptom in both men and women is genital warts, which frequently occur after infection...