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...mystery deepened and the number of cases rose, the CDC intensified its investigation into the causes of the syndrome. Disease detectives interviewed scores of homosexuals about their sexual practices to test the hypothesis that AIDS was somehow tied to the gay life-style. They briefly considered and then discarded a theory linking AIDS to the use of "poppers" (liquid inhalants like amyl nitrite and butyl nitrite), which are said to enhance sexual pleasure and which had been used by many of the victims. Another theory held that repeated anal intercourse introduced sperm into the blood-stream and that this could...
While inventing and telling such incidents the author remains both sympathetic and dispassionate. Narayan's mastery of lucid English has somehow been achieved without the condescension and exasperation that Western converts often feel toward their unenlightened compatriots. The narrator of Annamalai, a writer by trade, describes his method of coping with a difficult but intriguing servant: "The only way to exist in harmony with Annamalai was to take him as he was; to improve or enlighten him would only exhaust the reformer and disrupt nature's design." From Narayan's decision to suspend judgments hangs a galaxy of irresistible tales...
...timer? He is the Cro-Magnon man. Going into last weekend, he needed 20 more hits before he would reach 4,191, return to 1928 and rendezvous with the roughest competitor in baseball's history, Tyrus Raymond Cobb. Somehow Rose overshot his true generation, and has had to hustle almost a quarter of a century to rejoin a gang of bronze men just like him. "Wagner, Speaker, Musial, Aaron--Ty Cobb." He rattles off the last of the stops he has been hurrying past for years. "Ty Cobb," he says with, wonder. Rose's ten-month-old son is named...
...Freddie Miller. "In high school," says Brinkman, "Pete was still pretty small, a 5-ft. 8-in., 150-lb. football player. That's why not too many baseball scouts were interested in him. But Pete just decided he was going to make himself into a great player and did." Somehow he made himself...
...stiff criticism in 1981 of U.S. policy led the Administration to refuse to extend his visa so he could appear on a U.S. television program. In a typical laconic response, he told a TV interviewer, "What the Soviet Union is doing is explaining its position to the world. Somehow, your people don't like...