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...what is likely good documentary form, Kerouac brings up all these issues without dwelling on any one in particular. The key issues surface--the author's Oedipal ties to his mother, his dabblings in Buddhism and his benzedrine-induced writing method, but although they're faithfully examined, Antonoli doesn't go beyond a cursory treatment of the straight facts...
...sexual intercourse. This is far and away the leading method of transmission, and to explain why requires being explicit; too often the mechanisms have been obscured by ambiguous phrases like "exchange of bodily fluids" that may frighten more people than they inform...
...investigation. Blood or vaginal secretions might enter a man's body through sores or other lesions. It is not certain whether open-mouth kissing can transmit AIDS; given the small concentrations of the virus so far found in saliva, it would seem to be what scientists call an inefficient method of spreading the disease...
...heavy majority, as much as 73% of all AIDS cases in the U.S., result from homosexual intercourse between men. The most prevalent method of transmission from man to man (and possibly from man to woman) is thought to be anal intercourse, which frequently results in ruptures of the rectum, through which the semen of an infected man can enter the blood of a male or female sexual partner. The swallowing of semen, by either women or men, is suspected but not proved to be a method of transmission...
...twelve hours, but it left five people dead and 60 injured. Worse, Thailand's image as an increasingly stable semidemocracy in Southeast Asia may have been tarnished. Said Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanonda, whose government withstood another military takeover attempt only four years ago: "I don't agree with this method of solving the country's problems...