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...volunteer groups have also taken a leading role in educating the public and, especially, high-risk populations about AIDS and how to avoid it. They have issued a blizzard of pamphlets on "safe sex," advising gays to refrain from anonymous contacts and to avoid the exchange of body fluids. On the West Coast, AIDS Project Los Angeles has published a comprehensive guide to the disease titled "Living with AIDS." The project has also launched a billboard campaign and distributed posters with gentle reminders to "Play Safely...
...hospital system coming apart at the edges." Some doctors believe that special medical centers similar to cancer centers may have to be established to care for AIDS and ARC patients. Public health experts are calling for wide-reaching educational programs to teach Americans about the disease and how to avoid exposure...
Nearly every big city has counseling classes for those who want information on how to avoid the disease and for those who have trouble dealing with their fear, or "AIDS anxiety," as it is now called. Washington's AIDS Education Fund, for instance, offers seminars for the "worried well," who are sometimes so terrified that they can no longer function normally in everyday life. The worry has even led some gays to change their appearance. Because rapid weight loss is one of the symptoms of AIDS, some homosexuals think it is not fashionable any more to be thin...
...year-old son's head and offer his hair as tribute if he recovers from whooping cough and convulsions. Unfortunately, the healthy young man is now 20 and in no mood to cooperate: "You had no business to pawn my scalp without consulting me." The hero of All Avoidable Talk is a clerk who learns from his astrologer that a period of bad luck will end if he can avoid saying anything that might give offense to anybody for one more day. Naturally the employee has nothing but grief at the office and finds himself, to his horror, visiting...
...cannot undo the past, but we can avoid repeating Hiroshima in the future. I hope our politicians realize that. Jinmin Oh New York City South Africa's Dilemma...