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There is a great difference between the phrases "not impossible," and "very, very, unlikely." Like the glass both half empty and half full, they are the same, yet connote very different things, and on a topic as volatile as the modes of AIDS transmission, the difference is powerfully important. In the chapter, "Can You Catch AIDS From a Toilet Seat?", Masters and Johnson consistently refuse to rule out even the tiniest and most speculative risks. Whether they are describing the fear contained in the title, or kissing or any of the other rumors about how one catches the disease, they...
Alice M. Rivlin, who is spending a semester in residence at the Kennedy School of Government, has studied this problem for more than three years and is publishing a book on the topic. which she co-authored with a policy analyst, entitled, Caring for the Disabled Elderly: Who Will pay? The text is scheduled to be in bookstores next month...
Hurst is researching the evolution of religion, a topic which is unusual among the sciences because it "extends into theology and philosophy. It is also highly contentious because of it's connection with the whole sociobiological thing." He says he audits classes and likes to "talk to academics all over the university--Wilson, Bell, Gould--I go around knocking on people's doors and disturbing people." Hurst also taught a section of Science B-16 last semester and is currently teaching one for Science...
June 22: "Our topic tonight is Democratic gridlock and how to break it," Ted Koppel declared at the beginning of a special edition of Nightline. "With us are all five candidates...
...second-string guard on the Harvard basketball team, Gore made up for a lack of physical skills through hustle and hard work. Nowadays when he turns his active, creative mind to a topic, he exhibits the same dogged discipline...