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...disease can be spread by heterosexual intercourse. The primary agent of infection is semen. Women get AIDS from infected men. They do not get AIDS from other women so far as is known. Men get AIDS from women far less frequently; indeed there is some debate as to whether they do so at all. The virus can be carried by a woman's blood, but whether it is present in vaginal secretions is still subject to investigation. Blood or vaginal secretions might enter a man's body through sores or other lesions. It is not certain whether open-mouth kissing...
...blood from the AIDS victim entered his body through a cut, which is unlikely but not impossible. As an extra precaution, some health authorities recommend that AIDS children who might bite or are incontinent be kept out of school, though urine, like saliva, has not been known to spread AIDS. Even the obvious injunction to avoid intercourse with an AIDS victim is not easy to follow. Up to a million Americans are thought to have been exposed to the virus, and the vast majority do not themselves know who they are; many may not develop symptoms for six years...
...cases of breast cancer diagnosed annually in the U.S., as many as 90,000 occur in women who are postmenopausal or over 50. In roughly half of these older women, the malignant cells have spread to nearby lymph nodes; some 30% die of recurring cancer within five years after surgery. That grim toll may soon be reduced. A National Institutes of Health advisory panel last week recommended the postsurgery use of a drug called tamoxifen in most of these cases, saying that it could cut the death rate...
EXHIBIT A: Sadness spread over the faces of two freshmales from Holworthy as they sat dejectedly on the sidewalk on Quincy St. outside the Union. "I'd be a lot happier if they served booze," said the first. "All I want is for that girl over there to sit on my lap," said the other, who for his part obviously did not want for liquor...
...importation of arms from South Africa. Reagan's Executive action should pre-empt Congress's almost certain passage of the sanctions bill and may thus prevent an angry clash between the White House and Capitol Hill over the issue. In South Africa, where racial violence last week spread for the first time this year to a white suburb, the President's action threatens to upset State President P.W. Botha's desperate attempts to contain the country's economic crisis...