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...mixed news for AIDS sufferers and those at especially high risk for contracting the disease. "This is one of those classic good news/ bad news stories," says Dr. Jeffrey Laurence, professor of medicine at Cornell Medical Center and senior scientist for programs at the American Foundation for AIDS Research (AMFAR). "On the one hand, it?s wonderful we can keep a monkey healthy even after he?s injected with dangerous levels of HIV. But on the other hand, we?re not talking about something that?s immediately transferable to humans." There?s also the issue of mutation, he adds...
...just me, because I've heard about these stories. People get bitten by things and then six weeks later the thing has died and then what do you do? And because, you've got to remember, I work with a lot of infectious disease people through AMFAR, so when we're sitting around shooting the shit I hear a lot of stories about a lot of things. So I knew from my conversations with them that this was the thing...
...Sharon Stone asked me if I would ever host anything for AMFAR. So I said to my fiance, "Let's not register. I don't need towels and dishes. Let's get people to give to a charity instead...
...afford that charity. We decided on AMFAR. And because of that, PEOPLE covered it. I called some of the vendors and asked them where they'd want to be, and they said PEOPLE...
...Cannes still has its beguilements and ironies. Visitors can choose between seeing a brutal drama about the Egypt-Israel Yom Kippur War and attending an AMFAR benefit dinner featuring top models in Victoria's Secret skivvies--and some choose Kippur...