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Epidemiologist Warren Winkelstein of the University of California, Berkeley, offered some slight encouragement, suggesting that public education campaigns have slowed the spread of the infection. While the number of AIDS cases is still increasing among homosexual men in San Francisco, he said, the rate of new infections declined from an 18% increase each year between 1982 and 1984 to only about a 4% rise last year. Winkelstein attributes the drop to "safe sex" practices like using condoms. Similar declines have been recorded among gay men and intravenous drug users in Baltimore. Said Dr. Frank Polk of the Johns Hopkins School...
...their own frequent accounts in the public prints, the Lloyds are prone to slight disagreements. He has liked rock music; she has liked a rock musician. But they differ on nothing else quite as much as tennis. To Chris, "It's in your blood, putting something on the line every day. It's a great feeling when you win. And when you lose, I think you're wiser." But the Englishman she married in 1979 never regarded tennis as a blood sport or a life. While Chris expressed eagerness even for practice, John had to admit, "It was such...
Well, the Russian white knight, needless to say, comes equipped with someone for Elaine's friend, the Lurch-like Igor. After a slight misunderstanding regarding the difference between blowing them off and excusing themselves to go to the bathroom, the women nab both of the sailors for the night. And what a night it is--Theresa and Igor are energetically bouncing up and down on the bed while next door Elaine and Peter are holding hands, looking out at the stars, and thinking that they might be fallling in love with each other...
...these erstwhile practitioners of the dark arts of spying, espionage, sabotage and behind-the-lines derring-do. The OSS's achievements, said Reagan, were of the sort for which "praise and thanks can only come from history and not your contemporaries." But he tried to make up for the slight, saying, "We honor you, we salute you, we thank you for a job well done...
Despite a slight slump in overall arms sales in 1985, Britain, France, West Germany and Italy together sold $9.37 billion in weapons to Third World countries, principally to the Middle East. Western Europe thus accounted for 31.3% of this arms trade, in contrast to 30.4% for the Soviet Union...