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...computer virus "Romeo and Juliet," also known as "BleBla," bombarded Harvard e-mail accounts yesterday, inconveniencing users but causing little serious damage...
...virus, which spreads by resending itself to infected e-mail address books, prevents the opening of certain files and sends them to the computer's recycle...
...current form, the virus is very good at transmitting itself, but its payload is relatively minor," said Kevin S. Davis '98, the coordinator of Residential Computing, who is also a Crimson editor...
...Twenty years ago, when the first cases of AIDS were diagnosed in the U.S., the mysterious disease stuck close to the population that is still most associated with its ravages: gay men. But then, as the virus spread, it touched more "normal" lives, left its urban habitat and invaded small towns across the country. By the mid-'90s, everyone was talking about AIDS, not as the gay man's disease, but as a universal threat. Schools started talking about condoms; kids were shown videos touting abstinence or AIDS prevention or both; some cities started handing out clean needles to intravenous...
...Since 1997, for example, the rate of HIV infections in San Francisco's gay male population has more than doubled, a trend scientists fear is duplicating itself in other cities. New studies indicate that as many as one in 50 black men in the U.S. is infected with the virus...