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...retrospect, I'm glad I held my saliva. I've come to believe that universal access to the 'Net is no longer a luxury. It is a technological necessity for the equitable spread of true and genuine democracy...
...result is a remarkable 137-page account of the tedium, trials and travails--and sometimes even joys--of the locked-in life. Bemoaning his fruitless "physical rehabilitation" sessions, for example, Bauby writes, "I would be the happiest man in the world if I could just properly swallow the saliva that permanently invades my mouth." He lets his readers know that his celebrated wit survived the stroke by pointing up the ironic aspects of his condition. Bauby recalls a contract he signed before his illness to write an updated version of the Alexandre Dumas classic The Count of Monte Cristo...
...where few were able to find it. He was the first to show that it grows in long-lived immune cells called macrophages and among the first to isolate it in the nervous system and semen. Just as important, he showed that there isn't enough active virus in saliva for kissing to transmit the infection. "David had the Midas touch," Hirsch recalls. "Whatever he did worked...
...dean and students said vandals soiled several bathrooms and hallways in Thayer last week with human excrement, urine and saliva...
...lining of the rectum like those that are produced during anal sex and that increase the chance of HIV infection in humans. But generally speaking, the results support the idea that the number of HIV particles found in an infected man's semen--though not in the saliva--is sufficient to be passed on through the mouth or throat. One likely route: the tonsils, which contain large numbers of the kinds of lymph cells favored by HIV and SIV. "We're not saying that oral exposure is more dangerous than anal exposure," notes Dr. Ruth Ruprecht of Dana-Farber. "What...