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...HAMPSHIRE (77): Michele Altobello 3-9--15; Melissa Pfefferle 2-6--10: Beth Lilore 0-0--0; Deb Dorsch 3-0--6; Beth Curran 3-5--11; Shelley Fitz 0-0--0; Missy Belanger 3-5--11; Kris Kinney 9-6--24; Carolyn Keaveny 0-0--0. Totals...
...that at least 50% of them will progress to the full-blown disease. As more cases are reported, researchers have come to realize that the chances of developing AIDS are greater in the second five years after infection than in the first. "As time goes on," says Dr. James Curran, a top AIDS epidemiologist at the CDC, "only a minority of infected people will remain healthy. I feel less optimistic about a normal life span for any infected person...
...rate. For the present the heterosexuals facing the greatest threat are those most likely to consort with infected drug addicts: mainly the inner-city poor, who tend to be black or Hispanic. "Two- thirds of the heterosexual cases now are black and Hispanic, concentrated on the East Coast," says Curran. "I would predict that AIDS would spread fastest in those communities...
While obdurate dissenters will apparently not be spared in the crackdown, church policy has been ambiguous in some cases. Shortly after Curran's ouster, the Catholic University board granted tenure to Canon Lawyer James Provost, whose writings had irked the Vatican. In gaining tenure, however, Provost had to agree to write clarifications of his past support for first Communion before first confession and for giving Communion to some Catholics who divorce and remarry without annulments...
Whatever the appearances, one Vatican official insists, "the Holy See does not have a fixation on the United States." Indeed, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger's Vatican doctrinal office, having dispensed with Curran, faces no other imminent decisions in the U.S., and two weeks ago turned toward Europe, issuing a formal rebuke of a theologian in the Netherlands, Edward Schillebeeckx. His offense: proposing that lay Catholics could celebrate Mass in unusual situations...