Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the fact that behavioral change offers the best hope for slowing the spread of the epidemic, funds for education have been especially meager. In 1986, the Centers for Disease Control had $25 million available for education, although a full program would have required three times as much. The federal government refused to issue educational materials explicitly advising "safe sex" practices. Apparently, it was feared that this would be construed as an "endorsement" of homosexuality...
...Harvey V. Fineberg, dean of the Harvard School of Public Health, noted, "We understand enough about the cause and spread of the AIDS virus to give people the knowledge they need to protect themselves." Yet, outside the gay community, this is not being done...
...having become the Establishment. Notes the Next Wave's Roger W. Oliver: "All these artists started in opposition to what was being done at the time. But as they have matured, and in order to grow as artists, they had to move toward the center." To combat middle-age spread, they have branched out. Wilson has taken up traditional opera (he will direct Strauss's Salome at La Scala in January), Glass has written movie scores (Koyaanisquatsi, Mishima), while Tharp has choreographed for the American Ballet Theater and worked with Jerome Robbins. The have-nots have become the haves...
...self- educated printer and "one of the nation's truly fabulous characters." Contrary to popular belief, Greeley never said "Go West, young man." He uttered a sentiment along those lines that was later paraphrased into immortality. But Greeley did found the Tribune in 1841; his thundering editorials against the spread of slavery helped set the climate for the Civil War; he was a prime mover in the creation of the Republican Party. Greeley's death in 1872 might easily have been followed by that of his now leaderless Tribune...
...DRUGS AREN'T good, why is drug-testing bad? Well, the Constitution protects Americans from unreasonable searches and seizures--it's right there in the Fourth Amendment. The farcical idea now being spread by overzealous advocates of drug-testing is that those who have nothing to hide have nothing to worry about...