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RIGHT AFTER dedicated doctors but before crusading coroners, journalists have recently come to occupy the spot of "most heroic profession." Walter Cronkhite, Wood ward & Bernstein, Lou Grant; in the public eye there is often a suspicion that underneath those Lois Lane outfits and Clark Kent glasses lurks the big red S, out to correct the injustices of the world with the blinding light of truth...
According to Dr. Ward Cates, director of the Division of Venereal Disease Control at Atlanta's Centers for Disease Control, there may actually be an advantage in childhood exposure to herpes. Says he: "Having herpes for the first time as an adult is more serious than having it as a child." Cates points out that herpes almost always spreads through direct contact with a lesion or saliva or other body fluids. Says he: "The risk of transmission in a school setting is negligible...
...latter. Last Christmastime, the President's wife spent three hours at Washington's Children's Hospital doling out toys. The visit provided a particularly emblematic First Lady image: Nancy Reagan in her red-and-black pumps, black knit Adolfo jacket and plaid Adolfo skirt, kneeling on a linoleum ward floor to coddle an infant. Impeccably turned out, uncomplainingly doing her social duty...
Andrew W. Ward '79, member and former captain of the Harvard Cycling Team, says, "Massachussetts drivers and Boston drivers in particular make it difficult to ride. In short, they just don't obey many of the road rules...
...Ward recognizes that most cyclists also disobey traffic rules. "A lot of them are just inviting accident. For the most part, they tend to run red lights and ride down one-way streets the wrong way," he says, adding that drivers' legitimate expectations for cyclists to "pull some ridiculous stunt" further compounds the problem. "They'll tend to either give you a wide berth, speed up past you or just honk their horns," he says...