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...research offers evidence that there may indeed be a physiological basis for sexual orientation. In a study of 41 brains taken from people who died before age 60, Simon LeVay, a biologist at San Diego's Salk Institute for Biological Studies, found that one tiny region in the brain of homosexual men was more like that in women than that in heterosexual men. "Sexuality is an important part of who we are," notes LeVay, who is gay. "And now we have a specific part of the brain to look at and to study...
Through his publicist, Reubens denied the accusation, but that little detail hardly registered among the seismic aftershocks of the original arrest. Reubens' mug shots made the front pages; heavy psychological hitters like Dr. Lee Salk and Dr. Joyce Brothers were enlisted to advise parents on what to tell the kids. The radio and TV airwaves were suddenly alive with Pee-wee jokes (His favorite baseball team? The Montreal Expos. His next television project? A remake of Diff'rent Strokes). CBS yanked the five remaining repeat episodes of Pee-wee's Playhouse, and the Disney-MGM Studios pulled a two- minute...
...addition, Salk has asked the state of California for permission to inject his immunogen into ten volunteers who are free of AIDS. He theorizes that the volunteers' immune system will develop antibodies that may provide resistance- building injections for AIDS patients, and that this could eventually lead to an AIDS-prevention vaccine. Confident of the low risks, Salk himself plans to participate, just as he did when developing his polio vaccine...
...curious feature of the Salk plan raised considerable nonmedical controversy last week, when it became known that Roman Catholic nuns and priests had been asked to volunteer to test the Salk vaccine. Searching for volunteers, U.S.C. turned to Roger Mahony, the Catholic Archbishop of Los Angeles. University officials explained that "persons with the lowest possible risk" of AIDS infection would be most desirable, and that those committed to celibacy would be ideal. Mahony thereupon sent a letter to all nuns and priests in the archdiocese, asking those 65 or older to consider signing up for Salk's shots. When...
...surge in deaths during early testing of the medication DDI raises questions about relaxed FDA regulations. -- Nuns and priests are sought for Salk's anti- AIDS tests...