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...vast gleaming white sides of the ice cabin, crafty taggers continuously sully the innocent snowmen with black spray paint. Not only a last-minute resource for party melt-downs, the structure also acts as a billboard for the company's other products such as 40 pounders, Dry Ice, Cocktail Ice and the legendary Booze Luge, all of which can be delivered with the ease of a phone call...
...virtuoso of quotable quotes and absurd silliness, Ellis lives cocktail party chitchat. He's a master of persuasion and listeners become believers even though he says nothing. His language is littered with "you knows"--a question as rhetorical and self-serving as the motive behind many of his recent public appearances. In conversation, Ellis incessantly sells himself, his book and his "friends...
...problem, of course, is that HIV takes no such breaks. When the pills stop, the virus roars back--except sometimes it doesn't. Last week researchers at the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center reported on four patients who started taking cocktail therapy early and then took a cocktail break. In two of the patients, the virus rebounded and remained at high levels until they went back on their medications. But in the other two, intriguingly, the virus spiked briefly and then went into hiding--staying below detectable levels for at least 14 months...
While patients like these are rare, their cases raise interesting questions. Could it be that the HIV spikes function as booster shots, priming the body's immune system to rally against the virus? Already, several aids-research teams have begun systematically weaning a few patients off their cocktail therapies to see whether the brief drug holidays might somehow be stretched into a permanent vacation...
Currently, the dominant treatment for HIV involves a cocktail of drugs that attack the virus once it has infected. The drugs can significantly reduce the presence of the virus but there is little evidence to suggest that it can actually cure the virus...