Word: victimize
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...been found in saliva and tears only in small amounts, and not a single case of transmission by those fluids has been documented. Doctors cannot prove that 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...
Thus there has been no known case of infection by so-called casual contact: being in the same room with an AIDS victim, sharing a meal or a bathroom, being sneezed on, even hugging and social kissing. Members of families who have lived in intimate non-sexual contact with AIDS victims for many years have yet to produce a single documented case of the disease. No doctor, nurse, dental technician or other "health-care provider," to use the medical jargon, in the U.S. is known to have picked up AIDS from a patient. (A nurse in Britain who contracted...
...sharing of needles among people who inject drugs into their bodies intravenously. An AIDS victim passes a needle to another drug abuser who uses it immediately; blood on the needle enters the second narcotics user's vein. Some 14% of the men and 53% of the much smaller number of women who have contracted AIDS in the U.S. got it this...
...petition, which has already been signed and verified by the Cambridge Election Commission, defines pornography as the "the graphic sexually explicit subordination of women through pictures or words." The ordinance, sponsored by the Women's Alliance Against Pornography, would permit a victim to seek civil damages against the maker, distributor, seller or distributor of anything deemed sexually dehumanizing...
This month in Savannah, which ranks fourth among U.S. cities in homicide rates, a 31-member, N.A.A.C.P.-sponsored citizens task force on black-vs.- black violence was created. Curtis Cooper, president of the Savannah N.A.A.C.P., noted that blacks are usually both perpetrator and victim in Chatham County. The task force, he says, was designed "to wake people up about the seriousness of this problem." Eugene H. Gadsden, a black superior court judge and a member of the task force, asserted that community involvement was essential. "We're the ones being affected most," said Gadsden, "and we ought to be able...