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...cases in young girls are especially worrisome. Some researchers suspect that because a teenager's cervix has more developing cells than an adult's, it is more vulnerable to HPV. At Children's Hospital in Boston about six teenagers a year must undergo surgery for cervical cancer, which in the past was extremely rare in the young...
None of this is to say that the risk of transmitting AIDS through heterosexual intercourse is not a serious one. Exactly how the virus is passed along, though, is still murky. Many researchers strongly suspect that an infected man can more easily pass the virus to a female sexual partner than vice versa. Certainly more women have got the disease from men than men from women: women make up 75% of those who have contracted AIDS through heterosexual intercourse. Researchers have speculated that the virus is more concentrated in semen than in vaginal secretions and that the mucous membranes lining...
...office and developed into a strong leader. Bush's supporters have already noticed a new authority and self-assurance in their man. As a candidate, he has delighted in exceeding low expectations. As President, he would relish the chance to make his critics eat their words once again. "I suspect that George Bush might surprise people by being bolder than expected," says Mitchell Daniels, a former head of the White House political- liaison office and current chief of the Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank. "He might break out of the mold...
...President, then, this practical man would probably cool the right-wing fervor that propelled Ronald Reagan to the White House. Ultraconservatives suspect that the Vice President might be a lamb in lion's clothing, particularly on social issues. Take abortion. "My position," said Bush in 1984, "is exactly the same as Ronald Reagan's." But last week, while explaining that Reagan would permit abortion only when the mother's life is at stake, Bush modified that stand. "I would add rape and incest," he said. Overall, it marked the fourth time he has changed his position on the sensitive subject...
...recent weeks Dukakis has criticized some of his opponents for being influenced by the money of political action committees. Dukakis' financial records, however, are far from suspect; his campaign accepts contributions from state contractors and Massachusetts employees...