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ANYONE WHO THINKS THAT BEING infected with HIV amounts to an automatic death sentence should talk to Rob Anderson. The 39-year-old San Francisco artist has beaten the odds against him by living -- no, thriving -- with the virus that causes AIDS for 14 years. At 6 ft. 2 in. and 170 lbs., Anderson has only routine medical complaints: the stuffiness of an occasional head cold or the aches and pains of a flu. His good health is not the work of some miracle drug: he has never taken AZT or any other compound to fight HIV. Incredible...
...Does Anderson have a natural immunity to AIDS? Just a few years ago, the idea would have seemed absurd. But that was before the results started coming in from a group of long-term health studies of 10,000 gay men, begun in the late 1970s to mid-1980s. Scientists, prodded by AIDS activists who wanted to "study the healthy" and to lift the shadows of doom that surround the disease, have now documented at least 70 cases like Anderson's. Researchers are also beginning to find similarly healthy, long-lived survivors among women and children with HIV. There...
...What you get from radio and television is equal to what you get driving past a well lit newsstand" Anderson said...
...Jack Anderson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist, said the media is not capable of objectivity...
...pretend that we are objective is an attempt to deceive," Anderson said. "We are unable to be objective. I have known every president since Franklin D. Roosevelt and every president has felt abused by the press...