Word: toilet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this will never happen, but nearly all known cases involve contact with the semen or blood of an AIDS victim. Quite direct contact too: the virus can live only a very short time outside the human body. It does not linger on doorknobs, clothing, food, dishes, glasses, utensils or toilet seats...
...case of a newborn, from an infected mother (see following story). But many people remain ignorant or simply doubt the evidence. The CBS-Times poll found that 47% think that AIDS can be contracted via a drinking glass, and 28% believe the disease can be picked up from a toilet seat...
...This isn't mass hysteria, it's frightened, unified parents," says Annette Maiorana, a Queens mother who kept her eight-year-old out of school last week. "In school, kids share their milk, they share sandwiches, they spit at each other. There's urine on the toilet seats. They chew on a pencil and give it to a friend. I have a little one ready to go to preschool, and it's frightening...
Four Harvard Medical School students, in an attempt to dispose of toilet paper while on a hiking trip in a wooded area northeast of Seattle, accidentally started a 500-acre forest fire. The four men admitted to having started the blaze, which took three days and $500,000 to contain, a national forest spokesperson said. The man allegedly responsible for starting the blaze was fined $100, the customary amount levied for starting a fire without a permit...
...break the habit until just before he was traded to New York in mid-June of 1983. When he lost ten pounds and awoke one morning with his nose bleeding, he knew he was in trouble. "I had the shakes and I wound up throwing a gram down the toilet," he testified. But what finally turned him off, Hernandez said, was when he saw St. Louis Outfielder Lonnie Smith, who now plays for the Kansas City Royals, have such a "bad experience" with cocaine that he was unable to play in a 1983 game...