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Salesman's Business Card |
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What to do with his card while you idly listen to his pitch. |
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The Second World Sets Its [HIV] Course |
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How AIDS is emerging in the former Soviet empire. |
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Sensing the Wine Cellar Disaster |
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If you're the cellar-master of a big Northern California winery, how do you assess the impact of a big earthquake? Let your five senses do the job... |
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The Servants' Century Off |
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All our lives, it seems, we've had to do our own cooking and cleaning. Not to worry, the servants will be back soon. You see, they like to take a century off every 550 years or so... |
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Seven - Handed Bridge |
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How seven people can play America's favorite four-handed game. |
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Seven Paths of Upward Social Mobility |
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Inspired by a drive from South Chicago to Kenilworth, at the end of which I pondered, "if I had grown up there, how could I have come to belong here?" |
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Seven Virtues of Gay Men |
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An enumeration of the major ways whereby gay guys become local heroes. |
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Sharing Prevention Money Fairly |
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To match San Francisco's HIV prevention effort, the rest of the U.S. needs to spend about three times as much. If it did, then maybe it would see the same gratifyingly low HIV incidence rates. |
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The Shoe that Didn't Drop |
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Three worrisome predictions about a "second wave" of AIDS in America that- thus far- aren't coming true. |
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Short and Tall Men Together |
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Imagining a club catering to the intense attraction that short and tall gay men often have for one another... |
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A Short History of the Conquest of the Crack Epidemic |
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A fantasy that coca-leaf tea -- weak, legal, and regulated -- could squeeze "crack" out of the market. |
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Sick and Poor, Sick and Rich |
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An enumeration of the many, many reasons why it's tougher to face HIV if you're poor than if you're rich. |
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Silk Stocking Liberals |
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In trying to be a good "liberal"- compassionate, generous, open- hearted- during my 1982 run for Congress, it occurred to me that conservatives are that way because they are insecure about their social class status. |
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Skiing at the Edge |
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A Social Class Analysis of Vegetables |
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An assignment of vegetables into refined patrician or coarse plebeian classes. Future dinner hosts of mine, take note! |
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Some Notes on a Method to Stay the Hand of the Torturer |
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My cry to do whatever it takes to be effective against the world's torturers. |
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Speed Speeds HIV Spread |
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Clear evidence that speed abuse is a handmaiden par excellence for HIV contagion. |
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Squire Newmeyer's Principles for 21st Century Country House Weekends |
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How to be a gracious host when you've got guests for a country weekend. |
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Stand Over Your Man |
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How the wife of a powerful man should respond when she discovers he's cheating on her. |
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A Stepwise Nomenclature of Aging in America |
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Proposes precise usage for synonyms of "old", to demarcate that vast timescape between 55 and 105. |
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Stern-Men and Bow-Men |
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On East Coast rivers and lakes, boatmen propel their craft whilst facing backwards; on the West Coast, they face forwards. Here's why. |
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Stories from the Closet |
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Reminiscences of being gay in a fraternity at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. |
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SYLLABUS First North American Interspecies Conference
on the Future of Predation |
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Prey and predator join together for an interspecies conference on the future of predation. |
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