Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, July 12, 1994 TAG: 9407210058
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A3 EDITION: METRO
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CHICAGO - Openly gay and lesbian adults are no more likely than heterosexual adults to sexually abuse children, a new study suggests.
The study was done in Colorado, after a group lobbying to limit gay rights claimed that people living openly as homosexuals are responsible for 50 percent of all child molestations.
``No evidence is available from this data that children are at greater risk to be molested by identifiable homosexuals than by other adults,'' wrote the authors of the study, published in the July issue of Pediatrics.
- Associated Press
France gets AIDS patent royalties
WASHINGTON - American health officials agreed Monday to give more of the patent royalties to France and acknowledged that a French virus was used to invent a widely used AIDS test.
Under terms that revise a 1987 agreement, the French Pasteur Institute will receive millions of dollars more from the jointly held patent on an AIDS virus test that is used worldwide. The agreement acknowledged officially, for the first time, that the laboratory of American scientist Robert Gallo developed the AIDS test using a virus that had been isolated by a team headed by Luc Montagnier at the Pasteur Institute.
- Associated Press
Prison has answer to floss escape
CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Robert Shepard had his dental floss. Now prison officials have their answer: razor wire.
On June 29, Shepard escaped after braiding the dental floss to the thickness of a telephone cord. As a result of the escape, a state agency voted Monday to place razor wire above the recreation areas in its four regional jails at a cost of $9,000 per jail.
- Associated Press
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