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...that only drug users or prostitutes contract it. While it is true that most adults become infected through sex or exposure to contaminated needles, perhaps a third of all cases cannot clearly be linked to such causes. "Nature isn't tidy," says Dr. William Schaffner of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. "We had a case of two people who only worked together. One had hepatitis B, though he didn't know it, and the other didn't. On a single occasion, they drank from the same Coke. It happened at just the right time in the incubation cycle...
...Eating quarts of ice cream at night, smoking three packs a day and sitting at the computer 10 hours at a time." I wait in vain for her to get to the too-much part. Later I screw up my courage and phone Donna Hoffman, a professor at Vanderbilt University who has conducted more studies of online usage than anyone else I know. "Color me baffled," she says. Hoffman believes the report is critically flawed. For starters, there was no control group--composed of, say, people outside Pittsburgh. Teenagers were the largest group in the sample, and we all know...
Source: SCIENCE; Hoffman And Novak, Vanderbilt...
...Boston media members, including Channel 7's Gary Gillis, also greeted and interviewed the players. Gillis is notorious among the team members because he and his co-workers at the local NBC affiliate challenged the Crimson to a three-point shootout just before Harvard's NCAA Tournament appearance against Vanderbilt...
...from the Mexican chow consumed during this late-afternoon interview, a solicitous valet furnishes Travolta with a box of chocolate ladyfingers, mere snacks "to tide him over" until dinner. Lunch can be an orgy of steamed lobster or an artery-choking beef Wellington. His sister Annie marvels at this "Vanderbilt" life-style, where 24-hour chefs cater to any food fantasy. Even during a marketing powwow for Primary Colors, Nichols recalls, "everyone brought along sandwiches except John, who was served four or five different courses. It was not unlike taking a meeting with Henry VIII...