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...with political agendas have largely passed out of fashion. Revivals of work by such impassioned advocates as Ibsen and Arthur Miller are often met with weary resistance, and few contemporary writers seek to emulate their manifestos. On one subject, however, the theater is ablaze with social concern: the deadly viral disease known as AIDS, which as of last week had claimed 4,906 lives and is worsening. At least seven productions around the country have dealt with its impact, particularly on the major risk group, male homosexuals. Actors from coast to coast have performed Jeff Hagedorn's monologue One, which...
...least, his brand of conservatism will live on long after his tenure in office. Laws passed by a conservative Congress may be overturned in later sessions and executive orders may be rescinded by later chiefs, but a Reagan lifetime appointee to the High Court will have say on much viral matters as abortion, school prayer and affirmative action well into the next century...
...essential as the pigs were to the peasant economy, their fate was sealed once the African swine fever was discovered. An acute, febrile, highly contagious viral disease with a 99% mortality rate, it was initially recognized in Kenya in 1909. In 1971 it appeared for the first time in the Western Hemisphere, in Cuba, where 460,000 swine were killed to eliminate the disease. In 1978 it turned up in the Dominican Republic after a local pig supposedly ate contaminated ham from Spain. The vi rus quickly jumped the 200-mile common border into Haiti. Haitians recall seeing pigs fall...
...propounded by Russell Ross at the University of Washington in Seattle. According to Ross, the disease begins with damage to the thin layer of cells, or endothelium, that forms the protective lining of the arteries. In some cases, says Seattle Pathologist Earl Benditt, the lining may be harmed by viral infection. He has detected the presence of herpes virus in about 8% of atherosclerotic tissue samples. Damage can also result from high blood pressure, which forces blood to strike the artery wall with unusual force; from chemical derivatives of cigarette smoke; from elevated levels of blood fats; or simply from...
Supreme Court Justice; after a two-day hospital stay for treatment of viral bronchitis; at home in Falls Church...