Over the course of the 20th century, venereal disease training became an increasingly prominent component of the U.S. military's educational programs. This dissertation consists of a brief review of ...selected moments in the history of venereal disease prevention films produced by and for soldiers through the early, mid-, and post-war years of the 20 th century. The explicit purpose of this project is to examine the relationship of military education and the regulation of sexual activity as established and enhanced through the medium of film. From the standpoint of military history, I examine the interaction of the military institution with the phenomenon of venereal disease as it particularly affects gendered views of sexual behavior. The second half of the dissertation expands the discussion to include the imbrication of nationalist subject formation within the military discourse on venereal disease. I argue that the medium of film provides a unique form of historical evidence that, in combination with individual production histories, produces specific meanings about the militarized approach to venereal disease as it was carried out in the cinematic arena. The following chapters, while not exclusively focused on questions of gender, follow this thread of venereal disease prevention through its various permutations. Gender provides a useful alternative framework for interrogating the structures of nationalism that undergird venereal disease prevention efforts. Gender is demonstrated as a powerful site around which the disavowal of sexuality that drives the sex industry is allowed to coalesce. Women suffer under the consequences of this formal disavowal, as much as they are the bearers of the sex commodity that is made the more desired by the prohibition. As such, gender, along with questions of race or political radicalism, opens an imaginative window into alternate modalities for conceptualizing disease. In this case, establishing a certain instability of interpretation holds some sociopolitical and perhaps moral value. What is attempted is an exploration of what it might mean to unlock venereal disease from its cultural surround—to treat it as an unpredictable variable rather than a state of being assigned to certain patterns of metaphorical or associative thinking.
Chloromas (also called granulocytic sarcomas or myeloid sarcomas) are solid extramedullary tumors consisting of early myeloid precursors associated with AML. The name derives from the green color of ...affected tissues. They are more frequent with AML M4 and M5 subtypes, and are associated with t(8;21). They may herald AML relapse after remission. They present in the CNS with increased intracerebral pressure, or in the orbit with exophthalmos.
Administrators say a shortage of qualified Latin teachers threatens to dim one of the brightest developments in secondary school education in the past decade -- sharp increases in Latin enrollment. ...After an 80% decline over nearly 20 years, the number of students taking Latin started back up a few years ago as high-school students and their parents embraced the language as a way to boost verbal scores on college entrance exams. After all, they reasoned, two-thirds of the English language is based on Latin roots. The dearth of instructors, however, is choking the revival. The nation's pool of Latin teachers began evaporating when high school students abandoned the subject in the 1960s and 1970s. A current wave of retirements is sidelining more. And colleges say nowhere near enough education and language majors are specializing in Latin to remedy the shortfall near term. Mrs. Kuta started teaching Latin in 1979, too early to benefit from one of several summer Latin programs for high-school teachers that cropped up at colleges in the 1980s in response to pleas from high schools. With funding from the ACL and the National Endowment for the Humanities, the University of Georgia at Athens candidly targeted "teachers of Latin who lack sufficient preparation in the field" in a test program four years ago.
Researchers at LifeCell Corp have isolated and extracted the natural chemical compounds that cause dormancy in organisms like brine shrimp. The scientists are studying the natural properties of ...novelty pets known as Sea Monkeys to develop more efficient means of storing human blood.
The pollution-control company is expecting to get a big boost from pending revisions to the Clean Air Act. But its shares have subsided to $4 amid congressional squabbling over the legislation. Under ...the name Industrial Resources Inc., NaTec's shares soared as high as $9 last year when Congress put acid rain legislation high on its agenda. "It's going to be very useful where utilities do not have to make a huge reduction but a marginal reduction," says research assistant Michael Driscoll of UBS Securities Inc., New York. NaTec so far has signed only one contract -- with Western Slope Refining Co. to reduce emissions for a 35,000-kilowatt coke plant in Fruita, Colo. NaTec officials say they got positive reviews from Wisconsin Electric Power Co. and Public Service Co. of Colorado. Neither company has signed a contract yet. NaTec's executives expect the stock to rebound when President Bush finally signs the sweeping new amendments to the Clean Air Act requiring companies to clean up their emissions. "The clean air passage is going to have a positive effect on our stock. I don't see how it couldn't," says Chairman Socrates S. Christopher. Mr. Hobratschk agrees that "there will be a lot of excitement in the market" with signing of the legislation. Significant benefits to NaTec should materialize within six to 18 months, he adds.
Just ask Charles Greene III. The 29-year-old magician specializes in bringing levity -- and levitation -- to the petrochemical industry. Since 1988, he's played the trade show circuit, using magic ...tricks to hawk resins, drug testing and horizontal oil-field drilling. He's even sold cement. At the World of Concrete trade show in Atlanta, he rhapsodized about drying time and durability while turning a glass of water upside down without spilling a drop. Other performers, says Mr. Greene, wouldn't touch cement -- let alone nonylphenol ethoxylate, a chemical agent that makes soaps bubble. They gravitate to sexier merchandise such as pricey sneakers or food or toys. But Mr. Greene says he's happiest when "the product itself is bland and doesn't have an attractive quality."
"The barge company essentially said the money's gone, we quit," said Chief Warrant Officer Richard M. Meidt, from the Coast Guard's Pollution Response Division in Washington, D.C. "If they're not ...going to clean it up, we will," he said. "Now the Coast Guard is paying the bills and calling the shots." While the Coast Guard routinely picks up the tab for small "mystery spills of unknown origin," rarely is it forced to pay for such a large cleanup when the source is known. Sanford E. Gaines, director of the University of Houston Environmental Liability Law Program, said, the action "arises out of a sense of frustration" on the part of the Coast Guard, which has been roundly critized for its lack of coordination and slow response. The Coast Guard yesterday expressed some unhappiness with the speed at which equipment arrived on the scene.
HOUSTON -- Oil spilled from a tanker-barge crash began to threaten shellfish and wildlife in Texas's Galveston Bay and blocked the busy Houston Ship Channel to most traffic for a third day. A few ...vessels were allowed through last night on a sharply limited basis. A collision Saturday between a double-hulled tanker and two barges originally laden with 1.7 million gallons of partially refined crude triggered the spill. Initially, Coast Guard officials estimated that only about 50,000 gallons of oil from the barges went into the bay, but they have since raised that to some 500,000 gallons, making the incident a "major" spill. One of the damaged barges was emptied by Monday after spilling about 48,000 gallons. But the other sank and remains stuck on the edge where the shallow bay meets the 40-foot-deep ship channel. Its stern sits on the channel bottom and only its bow is above water. That barge has "holes in all three holds," said U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer Gene Maestas. "If it slips into the channel, all that oil's loose and it goes where it pleases." The barge, which originally held about 700,000 gallons, "might even float down the channel," he said.
