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Women with Male Chromosomes Say Life is Good
Normal sex lives reported, despite condition
 Girls
born with male chromosomes can still grow up to be women with normal
sex lives, according to new research.
Women with the rare gene mutation known as Complete Androgen
Insensitivity Syndrome (CAIS) contradict a basic difference between
men and women: That men have xy chromosomes and women have xx
chromosomes.
Women with CAIS, however, have xy chromosomes and started out as
boys while still embryos, say medical scientists at Johns Hopkins
Children's Center in Baltimore, which pioneered research into the
syndrome. But because of the gene mutation, their bodies don't
recognize or use androgens, which are male hormones, like
testosterone, that cause the development of male characteristics.
Consequently, the male hormones are metabolized into estrogen,
and the embryos develop into girls, albeit without ovaries and with
testicles that do not descend. They are sterile.
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AIDS Tests Come Too Late
Many HIV-positive patients already have full-blown disease
In a sign that high-risk groups are avoiding HIV tests until it's
too late to do much good, researchers announced yesterday that four
of every 10 patients who test positive for the virus that causes
AIDS already are near or in the full-blown stages of the disease.
The patients probably were HIV-positive for years, but in many
cases neither they nor their doctors had previously asked for an HIV
blood test, say the researchers. "We were a little surprised," says
Leo Hurley, a researcher who led a Kaiser Permanente Health Plan
study. "HIV has been around for 20 years now, and we still don't
have a handle on this."
The findings, based on separate studies by Kaiser Permanente and
the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), were
announced at the CDC-sponsored National HIV Prevention Conference in
Atlanta.
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 A
provocative, perceptive study of the cultural dynamics of classical
music in American society, Music, Talent, and Performance describes
music as a metaphor of the society in which it takes place.
Author Henry Kingsbury, a conservatory-trained pianist and music
educator turned anthropologist forgoes the traditional
ethnomusicologist approach of looking at a non-Western musical
culture to focus on the "field" of an American conservatory. The
result is a penetrating look at the distinction between teaching
music and the nurturing of musicality. Kingsbury offers an
innovative anthropological analysis of the western notion of
"talent" and its cultural character, noting that many non-western
societies have no such concept. Furthermore, he examines various
contexts in which music is produced, experienced, and evaluated. His
discussion includes the dynamics of orchestra rehearsals in the
conservatory, "master class" lessons with a distinguished
performer-pedagogue, the ritual characteristics of solo recitals,
and an interpretive analysis of stage fright.
Ultimately, Kingsbury argues that music "is highly shifting and
indeterminate in meaning, "a concept that has important implications
for all interpreters of culture and for the artists themselves.
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