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...have to pay for it until it was debugged. In exchange for computer time, the boys' job was to try (quite successfully) to find bugs that would crash it. "Trey got so into it," his father recalls, "that he would sneak out the basement door after we went to bed and spend most of the night there...
...attack the virus directly. Both understood that it would fail after a while. Later Schwartz added 3TC, another antiviral. AIDS took a first cuff at him anyway. He began experiencing memory loss and having difficulty concentrating. Every few weeks, something that felt like the flu would send him to bed for days. In the summer of 1995 he took a disability leave from his New York law firm. A few months later he had his first AIDS-related hospitalization, for meningitis, a brain inflammation that gave him headaches so lacerating that even sunlight caused him pain...
...that time his T cells had dropped to 201. This is the stage at which AIDS starts to behave like an abusive mate. It simmers alongside you in bed. It sits quietly at your table. And from time to time it goes berserk, pushes you into a corner and makes a fist. "I was starting," says Schwartz, "to accept the possibility of something catastrophic...
...developing drug-resistant strains of the virus. The side effects can be murderous. Even when the new drugs work, the quality of life they provide can be so-so. "Roughly every 10 days I sleep all day," says Schwartz. "I get up, take my pills and go back to bed...
Even a real estate huckster like Susan McDougal would have a hard time selling this Los Angeles home: a 6-ft. by 9-ft. cell in the county jail with a metal-frame bed and no television or reading material. This was where McDougal, a former partner with Bill and Hillary Clinton in the Whitewater Development Corp., spent the week before Christmas. She was awaiting a pretrial hearing related to charges that she embezzled money from the family of renowned conductor Zubin Mehta. But last Friday she was granted permission to return by year's end to the Federal Medical...