Word: transmitting
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...Health and Human Services, said AIDS would make black death -- the bubonic plague that wiped out as much as a third of Europe's population in the Middle Ages -- "pale by comparison." In a frightening, controversial book, sex researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson contended that toilet seats could transmit the AIDS virus and that the deadly disease would run rampant among heterosexuals...
...many other diseases, AIDS remains fatal; there is no known cure. It is still spreading rapidly among intravenous drug abusers. They pass along the virus to those who share needles with them or to sexual partners, both male and female. Women who are part of the drug scene often transmit the virus to their unborn children, almost surely dooming them to an early death. Some researchers fear that AIDS could eventually spread, through heterosexual intercourse, from addicts to the population at large. But so far the epidemic has confined itself, for the most part, to gay communities, to the drug...
...unspectacled viewers will not see a blurry image, as they did with the '50s technology, used in movies like House of Wax. A new process, Nuoptix 3D, uses regular cameras and delivers a normal picture. The illusion of depth is created by different-color lenses in the glasses, which transmit the image 16 milliseconds slower to the right eye than to the left. One catch: to get the 3-D effect, there has to be constant motion on the screen. So even if the game slows to a crawl, the halftime action will be fast and furious...
Competition from rivals MCI and Sprint hastened the move. Both companies can undercut AT&T's tolls on long-distance calls because their networks use fiber- optic cable almost exclusively. The light-wave lines, which transmit a signal faster than ordinary cables and produce clearer sound than satellite communications, form less than half of AT&T's telephone grid...
...virus from or passed it to. Dannemeyer, who supported an earlier, unsuccessful ballot proposition requiring the quarantine of AIDS patients, says he backs 102 because "we have a duty to know whether we have a fatal disease coursing through our veins, and we have a duty not to transmit it to another human being...