Word: risk
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...diseases, such as gonorrhea, chlamydia and genital herpes, move through the country. "There are a minimum of 6 million S.T.D.s recorded annually," says Dr. German Maisonet, medical director of the Los Angeles Minority AIDS Project. "Which means that about every five seconds an American is involved in a high-risk sexual practice minus a condom...
Though such numbers may seem small, proponents claim that contact tracing will help contain the spread of the disease, primarily among heterosexuals and in communities where it is not already prevalent. Those with AIDS, they say, have a moral duty to warn those they have put at risk. Critics of mandatory tracing charge that it may feed panic and hysteria. They stress that, unlike syphilis or gonorrhea, AIDS is so far incurable. Indeed, says Dr. Kevin Cahill, a member of New York City's board of health, some people who were told that they had been exposed to the virus...
What is this delicate musk that Catharine radiates? Perhaps the scent of fulfillment through risk. And why does it attract Alex Barnes (Debra Winger), a deskbound fed who determines to track Catharine down? The guys at the office, with their C.P.A. faces and helpful hands, share a big-brotherly lech for the hardest-working gal in law biz. But Alex has no emotional life, no obsession but her work. When she discovers that Catharine has the same fixation -- except that her work is murder for profit -- Alex finds a freer, more dangerous part of herself. Could she become...
...author overextends herself when she tries to occupy the high critical ground. She judges J.F.K. as deficient in the kind of courage celebrated in Profiles: "the willingness to risk position, power, career for the sake of some abiding conviction." But she also argues that Kennedy was a strong leader because he was "unobstructed by ideological preconception." She is on much firmer ground when sticking to her own preconception, an alluring vision of history as romance...
...women to surrender the sexual freedoms of the past two decades in favor of a more cautious life-style. -- As the number of victims climbs, comparisons between AIDS and the great epidemics in history become plausible. -- Deaths in Africa reach 50,000, and millions more are at risk. See LIVING...