Word: safe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Finally, your reporter created controversy where none existed. My comments were confined to the Catholic Church's position on the use of condoms as a method of artificial contraception. I recall making no remarks on the issue of "safe sex." Timothy A. Welsh...
Before the disaster, as McConnell tells it, NASA's public relations department was more astute than its management. Press releases boasting of a shiny, fail-safe shuttle fleet that would give the United States "routine access to space" flooded the media, which took NASA's word at face value...
...California at Irvine, the issue of whether to be tested for exposure to the AIDS virus is a simple one. Souleles, a homosexual, openly acknowledges the possibility that he may have been infected with the virus through previous sexual contact. But now he practices what has become known as "safe sex," and, he says, "the information that I'll receive from the test is not going to help me become more safe. If I find out I'm positive, there's nothing I can do about it anyway. It's kind of pointless...
...intravenous drug users, in Manhattan. "I've even seen couples who are both negative break up because of questions raised from just getting the test." For those who test positive, the psychological effect is devastating. And critics of mass testing question the ethics of informing people who are practicing safe sex, like Student Souleles, that they have been exposed. "You're handing people an explosion in their lives," says Judith Cohen, a University of California at San Francisco epidemiologist. Says Souleles: "The risks outweigh the benefits of finding out. I can deal with it fine on this level...
...attention is his sojourn in rural England, "this gift of the second life in Wiltshire, the second, happier childhood as it were, the second arrival (but with an adult's perception) at a knowledge of natural things, together with the fulfillment of the child's dream of the safe house in the wood...