Word: tested
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...matter how rigorous the testing requirements, no organization can be certain that its members are not infected with the AIDS virus. Reason: the body can take as long as four months to produce antibodies to the virus. Until that happens, an AIDS carrier will test negative and may gain a mistaken sense of security. Even a person who is AIDS free when the test is administered may shortly afterward become infected. To avoid lawsuits, most social clubs advertising protection from AIDS make a point of stating in their applications that they cannot guarantee that members are not infected...
...long ago as 1979 an unmanned Japan Railways Group prototype fitted with low-temperature superconducting electromagnets hit 321 m.p.h. on a test track; a version carrying three passengers made it to 249 m.p.h. earlier this year. That beats any conventional rival, including Japan's celebrated bullet train, which goes as fast as 149 m.p.h., and the French TGV, which provides the world's fastest regularly scheduled rail service, at speeds of up to 186 m.p.h...
...routine Tulelake operation stood in marked contrast to the more dramatic previous test, 350 miles away in a Brentwood, Calif., strawberry field. There, technicians wrapped in head-to-foot "space suits" -- required by federal regulations governing airborne use of potentially toxic substances -- sprayed 2,400 strawberry plants with a slightly different strain of the same ice- inhibiting bacterium. The event drew a crowd of reporters and government officials, who arrived with elaborate devices to sniff the air and taste the dirt around the test site. The start of the experiment was delayed for an hour because...
...sides. Rifkin, who makes his living speaking against genetic engineering, sowed fear and doubt among the public even after his supporters had concluded that the experiments were safe. But the scientists have not been blameless. Advanced Genetic Sciences Inc., the Oakland-based start-up firm that conducted the strawberry tests, managed to alienate most of California's Monterey County in 1986 when its closely held plans to test the microbes in that area were uncovered by a local newspaper. While that issue was being debated, Rifkin revealed that AGS scientists had already injected mutant bacteria into fruit and nut trees...
...learned its lesson. This month's experiments were preceded by a well- orchestrated campaign that included public meetings, mounds of explanatory literature and plant tours for county officials. The final legal hurdle fell the day before the first test. "The court is convinced," said Sacramento Superior Court Judge Darrel Lewis, "that ((the experiments)) are not unleashing some deleterious bacteria that are going to consume the city of Brentwood or anywhere else...