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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unprecedented circumstances. The definition of "high-risk sexual activity" is chilling: according to health experts, it includes fellatio and vaginal and anal sex without a condom, and cunnilingus without a shield. Anyone engaging in sex with a new partner or with a long-term partner whose sexual history is unknown is at risk. No wonder health departments and services have been deluged by phone calls. AID Atlanta, a hot line designed to help gays, finds that 85% of its callers are heterosexuals who fear they might have the disease. Moreover, 40% of calls to the AIDS hot line in Illinois...
Operating quietly and unknown to most Americans, the conservancy has in the ! past three decades bought hundreds of similarly fragile environments. From its headquarters in Arlington, Va., it now oversees a 2.61 million-acre empire that includes more than 1,000 species of threatened plants and animals. "We have been called the best-kept secret in conservation," says William Blair, TNC's president emeritus. "We are the largest private owner of land sanctuaries in the world, and we are either No. 1 or No. 2 in the amount of money we spend on conservation each year." Says U.S. Fish...
...Beirut a previously unknown group called Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine responded to U.S. naval movements by warning that it would kill the three Americans and one Indian national kidnaped from Beirut University College two weeks ago if the U.S. attacked Lebanon. Along with the message, they released a photo showing Hostage Robert Polhill, 52, an accounting lecturer from New York, with automatic weapons aimed at his head. The other captives: Alann Steen, 47, a journalism instructor who previously taught at California's Humboldt State University; Jesse Jonathan Turner, 39, a mathematics professor from Boise; and Mithileshwar Singh...
...Dukakis' chances and the whole '88 race dependon variables that are as yet undetermined," notthe least of which is that the field for 1988 isstill unknown, Goldman said
Graffiti, ranging from phone numbers to drawings, frequently decorate the tunnel walls which intrepid students have left on the walls to mark their descents into the unknown. The obscene drawings and interesting slogans beneath New Quincy House, for instance, have won renown among Harvard tunnel runners. A recent addition--"Quincy House 'Comics' Class of '87"--has been scribbled across one of the walls. And "Nuke New Quincy" appears nearby...