Arizona Daily Star from Tucson, Arizona • Page 23

Tucson, Monday, December 21, 1987 bc Arizona Batln Slar Section Page Three CONCERT ASK DR. RUTH Negative AiDS test isn't clean bill i JvLJyis A Jul 1987 Karola Inc. Q. I know a guy who thinks he is free of AIDS because he has had the initial AIDS-virus antigen test with negative results. Now he has the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval, to his way of thinking.

Please tell the world the truth about this. A. After the initial testing, if results are negative, the testee has to wait a certain period and be tested again. The virus may be in Dr. Ruth Westheimer stressed enough.

It affects all of us and from the letters I'm receiving to this column many of you share my concern. Consequently, I have written a pamphlet on safer sex. If you wish to obtain a copy, send $1 and a stamped, self-addressed, legal-sized envelope to Dr. RuthSafer Sex, care of this newspaper, P.O. Box 19709, Irvine, Calif.

92713-9709. Q. I have been divorced for two years and have a little girl. Some time ago I ran into my ex and we seemed to get along better than before. We began meeting casually and having sex now and then.

Imagine my astonishment when I learned that he has been married for nearly three years! I love him very much and want him back. I have tried getting over him no chance. Other guys just don't exist for me. He comes back now and then and we make love, but then I may not see him for a couple of weeks to a couple of months. I want him back all to myself.

What can I do? A. I don't know of any love potions or reliable spells to cast on a man. What you can do is ask him to get a divorce and remarry you. I don't think this is what he has in mind, or that it will tempt him, or he would feel like seeing you much more often than every few weeks. I would say that unless you can accept being a once-in-a-while thing for him you should ask him to be serious or leave you alone.

4 Hvx- the blood, but the antigens, by which the presence of the virus is detected, might not have developed at the time of the first testing. Between the first and second tests the testee has to be careful to avoid exposure to the virus. It is not a simple procedure like the Wassermann test for syphilis. It takes from six months to over a year. This is all the more reason for people who know they have never risked the disease to go on avoiding the risk, not rushing into shared sex, selecting partners with great care and maintaining a monogamous partnership (no cheating on either side).

The seriousness of the AIDS issue cannot be Elizabeth Mangelsdorf, The Arizona Daily Star Lead singer Bono didn't disappoint the 60,000 faithful at Sun Devil Stadium DR. GOTT U2 Clicks in Camera CirCUS Birth-control plants not commercially viable 1987 Newspaper Enterprise Association I Q. I read that in Australia, during times of drought and famine, aboriginal women ingested a plant that rendered them temporarily infertile. Has anyone researched this as a possible source of natural birth control? A. Birth-control plants are used in many parts of the world and seem to work, at least for some primitive tribes.

For example, the Ji-varo natives in Peru practice "Pride (In the Name of Love)," a 1984 anthem inspired by King that remains the most stirring song in U2's repertoire. The Mecham comment was typical of U2. The 10-year-old Irish quartet has always been afraid to say too much of a good thing. For a band with such strong social, religious and political beliefs, its lyrics are surprisingly vague, and sometimes downright empty. There is great intensity in U2's sound, and a burning message to go with it, but the fire is often forgettable.

(Go ahead. Try to hum a few bars of the new song, "Mothers of the Disappeared," which takes a great subject and goes nowhere.) But even if U2 sometimes says less than meets the eye, its grandly positive intentions and deadly sincerity are appreciated in the midst of so much idiocy in the music world. Besides, at $5 a ticket, this was a gift. A holiday gift full of hope, decency and good cheer. using plant material is available for contraceptive applications.

Q. How does a CT scanner work, how does it affect a person and what happens to a body being scanned? A. Computed tomography, or CT, is a complicated technique by which multiple X-ray images of a part of the body are fed into a computer and sorted. The end result, a series of X-ray pictures, shows amazing clarity and detail of various internal organs and structures. CT scans give considerab'" radiation exposure than do traditional X-ray examinations, but the slight potential danger to human tissue is usually outweighed by the tremendous amount of information to be gained.

This information often will save patients further unnecessary radiation from older, conventional methods. CT scanning is painless and does not ordinarily affect the body. Nevertheless, many experts urge caution in its use. Doctors are encouraged to be selective and parsimonious in ordering X-ray examinations of any kind, especially CT scans, because of the possible damage to normal tissue by low-level radiation. This is why competent physicians will opt for non-radiation tests, such as ultrasonography and magnetic-resonance imaging, unless a CT scan is absolutely necessary.

Send your questions to Gott at Box 91428, Cleveland, Ohio 44101. Peter Gott, M.D. By M. Scot Skinner The Arizona Daily Star TEMPE It was an event that made you want to see the movie. sold-out concert Saturday night at Sun Devil Stadium, the first of two, was filmed for an upcoming documentary about the band.

There were cameras in the audience, on the stage and in the air. At times, lead singer Bono was completely surrounded by technicians and equipment. More than once, Bono and his bandmates were positively lost in the crowd. Those of us who care about seeing things like faces will have to wait for the movie. The distracting business of moviemaking only added to the usual frustrations of stadium concerts.

There was a lack of focus and a lack of personality. Only the most theatrical pop stars can succeed in these huge outdoor situations. And U2, even with the charismatic Bono at the center, is about as theatrical as a cereal box. But not even the sporadic rain could dampen the soaring spirits of the 60,000 fans gathered under the I cool sky. The U2 faithful had come from across the state and across the nation to witness the final concerts of the band's world tour.

And they obviously found what they were looking for. There was a joyous sense of to-Z getherness at the concert, which amounted to a giant sing-a-long. REVIEW U2 in concert Saturday night at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, with B.B. King opening. Perhaps because of the filming, however, U2's performance was more ritualized than usual.

Saturday night's show had a serious sort of appeal, and there were plenty of fireworks, both musical and actual, but it will not erase the memory of U2's exceptional concerts in Arizona last April. An announcement from U2 was read before the concert, an apparent slap-on-the-back for a successful signature-gathering campaign against Gov. Evan Mecham: "In April, we asked you to do something, and by God, you've done it Arizona, this one's for you." The arrogance of the statement was probably unintentional the governor would be facing a recall election with or without the help of U2. But, with Christmas just six days away, it was the thought that counted. "I have two words to say," Bono intoned near the end of the two-hour, 21-song concert.

"Ev Mecham." The ridiculously cryptic message was met with confused cheers, which grew louder when Bono invoked the name of "great American hero" Martin Luther King Jr. for the second time. Then it was time for a form of family planning by administering a plant to fertile women. Anthropologists say the treatment is so effective that the Jivaro women cannot conceive until they use another plant to neutralize the effects of the first. Naturally, drug companies prick up their ears when they hear anecdotes like this, and, occasionally, effective substances can be purified from plant sources.

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