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...with large homosexual communities: New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. A number of them report a high level of sexual activity with numerous partners. Though this kind of activity increases the suspicion that the disease or some factor in it is sexually transmitted, researchers have been unable to trace the syndrome from sexual partner to partner as they often can with venereal diseases. In addition, they are puzzled by the fact that another group that usually suffers the same venereal ills as active homosexual men is not affected: female prostitutes...
...future. Zhao's report, so lengthy that it took two days to deliver, revealed that during the next five years China will engage in a major effort to streamline what he called the country's "bloated, overlapping, administrative structure." The monumentally inefficient bureaucracy, which can trace its beginnings to Confucius' time, has survived wars, political upheaval and even the Cultural Revolution. Today, it is estimated that China has as many as 20 million civil servants...
...many legends explaining the origins of the modern Christmas tree, three are the most popular. Some scholars trace the "tannenbaum" back to the fir tree erected by Boniface, the 8th-century English missionary known as the Apostle of Germany, in place of a sacred oak of Odin. Others point to the "paradise" trees of knowledge of good and evil, used as stage props in 15th century German Christmas plays...
...Dooley Professor of Political Science-to-be had acknowledged his son's talent, accepted his son's future lot, and not without a trace of envy. Jim McKay had made a luncheon arrangement to "get acquainted." Cliff Roberts, head of the Masters, had duly noted Bogart Jackson's name on a list of probables, feeling confident he would win a tournament soon and merit a berth in the most prestigious of TPA tournaments...
...height of less than one foot in an upside-down position, it will land on its paws in an incredible 1.8 sec. Its whiskers transmit complex information about its prey and surroundings to nerve bundles beneath the skin. According to one parapsychologist, the cat may even harbor a trace of E.S.P. A feline named Pooh, for example, who wandered off before the owners moved some 200 miles from Newnan, Ga., to a small town near Spartanburg, S.C., turned up at the family's new back door a year later...