European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 22, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a the stars and stripes Friday May 22, 1992 workers at mount Rushmore National memorial in South Dakota Are dwarfed by the presidential faces they arc inspecting for cracks wednesday. Two of the from wire reports sensitive new technology has disclosed that the aids virus hides in 100,000 times More cells inside an infected individual than previously thought a finding that helps explain Why the virus is so devastating scientists report. Ever since the human immunodeficiency virus which causes aids was discovered in 1984, scientists have wondered How a virus that seems to infect very few cells a perhaps fewer than 0.001 percent of All White blood cells a was Able to cause such damage. Researchers from Jefferson medical College in Philadelphia report in thursdays edition of the new England journal of Medicine that improved technology can detect the virus in far More White blood cells. Using a newly developed patented technique the researchers found the virus i Adan inside the genetic material of living human cells a feat previously considered impossible. And they have shown that up to 13 percent of the White blood cells in people with aids Are infected with hidden  doctor nets $164,300, Ama says by the Washington Post Washington a the average . Doctor in Active practice earned $164,300 net income before taxes in 1990 and worked 59.1 hours a week according to the american medical association. The $164,300 was what the doctor had left Over after paying an average $150,000 in office and other business expenses most of it for rent and office personnel. In 1989, average net income was $155,800. The 1990 figures include income of All doctors in medical practice at least 20 hours a week Hospital residents and doctors employed by the Federal government were not included in the tabulations. Net income differed greatly by specially. Surgeons topped the pack at $236,400 on average followed by radiologists $219,400anaesthesiologist a $207,400 and obstetricians and gynaecologists $207,300. General and family practitioners made $102,700. One finding contradicted the widespread View that malpractice lawsuits Are a major Factor in medical costs. According to the Ama figures professional liability claims against doctors have dropped since 1985, when 8.5 percent of physicians were hit with them to 5.8 percent in 1988. The rate in 1989 and 1990 was 6.6 percent. Technicians Are attending to Thomas Jefferson while a third Man stands atop George Washington. Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt Are not seen. That is More than enough chief researcher or. Roger Pomrantz said to explain hives role in the destruction of a persons immune system. In a related report the journal said three potentially fatal viruses Are now rampant among inner City poor particularly Black men posing a threat to their sexual partners health care workers and those with whom they May share intravenous drug injection equipment. Either the human immunodeficiency virus which causes aids the hepatitis b virus or the hepatitis c virus was found in a Quarter of All patients treated in 1988 in the emergency room of Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore according to the report. About 6 percent of the patients were infected with his and 5 percent with hepatitis b. Most surprising was the presence of the hepatitis c virus said the study director or. Gabor Kelen. Nearly 18 percent of the Young White heterosexual women with no history of intravenous drug use tested positive for infection with the virus presumably acquired from their sexual partners a clan  message mixed by the associated press scientists on thursday offered what they said was reassuring evidence about the safety of vasectomies. The study based on the experiences of almost 30,000 men found that those who have vasectomies appear to live just As Long As those who do not. Some studies have hinted that men with vasectomies might run a higher risk of heart disease or cancer of the prostate gland or Testicles the new work found no sign of these problems. The Only area of concern raised by the new research was a discovery of an unexpectedly High rate of cancer in those who had vasectomies More than 20 years earlier. Even in this group however the extra cancer was offset by less heart disease so their Overall death rate was the same As men who never had vasectomies. Or. Edward Giovannucci s work found that those who had undergone vasectomies at least two decades earlier were 44 percent More Likely than other men to die of cancer. Lung cancer accounted for most of this increased risk although those getting vasectomies were no More Likely than other men to have smoked. Quot Overall this a very reassuring study but we will have to look More carefully at the Long term cancer effects a said Giovannucci the study a principal author. It was published in the new England journal of Medicine. Just How vasectomies could contribute to heart trouble or cancer is unclear.  More found dead on mount Mckinley from wire reports Anchorage Alaska a three More climbers have been found dead on mount Mckinley. Authorities said they had been stranded and rationing supplies for a week and apparently fell while trying to reach help. The National Park service said the mountaineers All South koreans were found wednesday evening at 15,000 feet by a Volunteer Rescue team. Two italian climbers died in a fall Friday and a Swiss Mountaineer died sunday of an apparent heart attack while trying to scale the 20,320-foot Peak North America s tallest. About 1,000 people try to climb mount Mckinley 130 Miles Northeast of Anchorage each summer. About half make it to the top. Authorities say about 420 climbers Are on the Mountain a suicide Over Toothache Caledonia Minn. A a Man complaining of severe dental pain took his dentist hostage wednesday quickly released him and fatally shot himself. Randy l. Ott mess 37, took or. Mark Zard hostage at the dentist s office in Mabel then drove the 10 Miles East to Caledonia where Zard also had an office authorities said. Quot his family said he was in great pain 10 times More than a migraine. He attributed it to his dental care a said Houston county sheriff Dennis Swedberg Otterness was armed with two shotguns and a  Lincoln museum Washington a Interior Secretary Manuel Lujanjr. Has dropped plans to build a museum honouring the 16th president beneath the cavernous Lincoln memorial. The decision was viewed As Good news by rep. Richard j. Durbin d-ill., who wants to build a museum and research Center in Springfield Iii. Lujan started the dispute earlier this year when he expressed interest in a Lincoln memorial museum. The . Capitol historical society headed by a self described Quot Lincoln nut a said it was willing to raise Money to build  opposed Asheboro . A the state Baptist convention has voted to expel two churches that took stands supporting homosexuals. Members of Pullen memorial Baptist Church of Raleigh voted in March to bless the Union of two Gay men. Olin t. Binkley memorial Baptist Church in Chapel Hill voted in april to License a Gay divinity student to preach. Quot we All feel compassion and a sense of pain but this was necessary the Rev. Glen Holt of Fayetteville the convention s president said after the 5928 vote tuesday by its general board.2 die in spot Over roses Burbank Calif. A Burbank Man convicted hours earlier of beating his next door neighbor in a quarrel Over trimming roses burst into the Many a Nome with a Rifle wednesday killing two women and wounding two others. All the victims either had testified against the gunman or had been involved in the assault Case Burbank police sgt. Bob Brode said. The incident began when Thomas Paul Hume Nik 25, went into his neighbors Back Yard and began firing at several women there Burbank police said. Humenik pursued the women All his neighbors into the House firing at them said Burbank police it. Chris Welker. Welker said Humenik then fled in a 1970s White Chevrolet Al Camino and was still at Large wednesday night. A the was seen going into the House with a Rifle and then seeing leaving with a Rifle a Welker said. Merle Boyd 73, was pronounced dead at the scene and Sheila Young 45, died about three hours later at a local Hospital authorities said. Geraldine Correll 70, was in Good condition at another local Hospital with a gunshot wound in her shoulder authorities said. Elfriede Brauchle 48, was treated at the scene for cuts from flying Glass. Potency of his explained through new technology