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The Latest in Viral Research

Medical writer Robin Marantz Henig is a frequent contributor to The New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post, Mirabella, and Vogue. Her new book, "A Dancing Matrix" is about the work being done to understand viruses. The field has taken on new urgency since the spread of the AIDS virus. Hening says scientists have realized that emergence of a new virus is not as rare as previously though, and that it's caused mostly by human error rather than genetic mutation. They add that stresses on the ecological system can alter the balance between people and microbes, and can lead to an outbreak.

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Fresh Air with Terry Gross, March 5, 1993: Interview with Dorothy Allison; Interview with Robin Marantz Henig; Review of Digable Planets' album "Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space)."
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A Novelist and Survivor on the Lasting Effects of Child Abuse

Writer Dorothy Allison's new novel is called "Bastard Out of Carolina." It's about a poor South Carolina family's history of violence and incest, and is largely autobiographical. She says that she doesn't like most abuse literature out today because it tends to eroticize trauma. Allison has also written a book of short stories called "Trash" and a book of poems called "The Women Who Hate Me."

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South African Comedian Pieter-Dirk Uys

Pieter-Dirk Uys (pronounced "Peter Dirk Ace") is known for politically charged performances, touching on AIDS and apartheid. He's described himself as a "middle-aged, fat, bald Afrikaner Jewish drag queen from Cape Town." Writing in The New Yorker, Calvin Trillin called Uys South Africa's leading satirist. He's just won an Obie Award for his one-man show Foreign AIDS, performed at the La MaMa Theater in Manhattan last year. Uys' present show is Elections and Erections, now in London at the Soho Theater.

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