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...banks have not declared these countries to be in default because the lenders hope that payments will eventually resume. "A default becomes a real mess," says one New York banker. Since the debts of Bolivia, Nicaragua and Peru are relatively small and spread out among many lenders, the banks' losses on these loans have been easily offset by healthy profits in other lines of business. Bank earnings will suffer, however, if either Brazil or Argentina falls more than a few months behind in its payments...
These days Paulina Porizkova in a swimsuit is everybody's favorite model. Also without a swimsuit. The May issue of GQ magazine features her both ways. In Key West, Fla., Porizkova, 20, was shooting a men's beachwear picture spread with Model Jeff Aquilon to accompany a story on topless beaches. The plan was for her to be featured in the background. Somehow she moved to the fore. "Her personality came through," is how Photographer Patrick Demarchelier explains it. Porizkova thinks that the fuss she's already heard about the pictures is much ado about nothing. In Sweden where...
Health experts believe that screening tests, approved earlier this year, will help stop the spread of AIDS through contaminated blood (142 Americans have contracted AIDS from blood transfusions). The tests, recently put into use at blood banks throughout the U.S., are less than perfect, however. Researchers fear that some infected blood samples could slip through undetected. Says Curran: "We don't know how big a problem that...
...threat to the general public could be the rising number of prostitutes exposed to the AIDS virus, many of whom are infected through drug abuse. Though much has been made of the role of anal intercourse in the transmission of AIDS among homosexuals, the AIDS virus is almost certainly spread through vaginal intercourse as well. The vulnerability of prostitutes raises the specter of a major new source of contagion...
...siblings showed any signs of infection. Other research presented in Atlanta offered an intriguing clue to the mystery of how AIDS began. Dr. Myron Essex of the Harvard School of Public Health believes that the virus may have originated in a species known as the African green monkey and spread to humans only in recent decades. Essex has found that about 70% of African greens studied by his lab show signs of infection with a virus closely related to that which causes AIDS in humans. The monkeys, he notes, abound in the very regions of central Africa where human AIDS...