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A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of writing poem.

Investigates patterns of age mixing and gender mixing among children and adolescents at an ungraded school. Age mixing more frequent for 12-15-year-olds than for 8-11 or 16-19-year-olds and less frequent for conversations than for activities; Gender mixing less frequent for 8-11-year-olds than for other age groups and more frequent for conversations than for activities.

Discusses how group support builds the morale of patients with cancers of the head and neck. Activities of the group; Topics discussed within the group; Limitations of support groups.

Objective: To monitor trends in HIV seroprevalence in the United States, HIV testing was included in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) conducted from 1999 to 2006., Methods: From 1999 to 2006, 11,928 participants aged 18–49 years were tested for HIV antibody. Prevalence estimates were weighted to account for over sampling and nonresponse., Results: There were 67 HIV antibody-reactive individuals for a seroprevalence of 0.5% [95% confidence interval (CI) 0.3–0.6]. In the only age subgroup directly comparable between surveys (18–39 years), HIV seroprevalence remained constant from NHANES III(1988–1994) to NHANES 1999–2002 and 2003–2006. In NHANES 1999–2006, non–Hispanic blacks had significantly higher HIV seroprevalence(2.0%, 95% CI 1.5–2.7) compared with individuals in all other race/ethnic groups combined. Seroprevalence was also higher in each race/ethnic group among men who have sex with men (9.4%95% CI 5.0–17.1), among persons who had detectable antibody to herpes simplex type-two (1.9% 95% CI 1.4–2.8), among those who had 50 or more lifetime sex partners (3.4%, 95% CI 1.7–6.7), and among those who never married (0.8%, 95% CI 0.5–1.3)., Conclusions: In this household-based population, seroprevalence did not significantly change from NHANES III to NHANES 1999–2006. Non–Hispanic blacks had significantly higher prevalence of infection compared with other race/ethnic groups. Male-to-male sex and the presence of HSV-2 antibody were the strongest predictors of HIV infection