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...majority of those with HIV outside the U.S. and Europe, the cost of the new "cocktail" treatments seems a cruel joke. The average Kenyan would exhaust his annual income in less than a week on the regimen. In India, where the government imposes 100% to 150% customs duty on pharmaceuticals brought from overseas, even a two-drug treatment can run to $3,500 a month, or more than 75 times the monthly earnings of poor laborers, who are the prime victims of the disease. "The new drugs will help the yuppies of the world," says Thailand's Mechai Viravaidya...
...third drug, Crixivan, one of the new protease inhibitors. Up to this point, Schwartz's story had been like most in the epidemic, none of them very encouraging. But 1996 reinvented the genre and put at its center the AIDS patient who bounces back on the three-drug cocktail. Over the past year--like a character plucked from a drama and dropped into what, exactly?-- Schwartz moved from one story to the other. His T cells are back above 500. His viral load, meaning the presence of the HIV virus in his blood, has dropped to--the magic words--undetectable...
With Henry Cisneros and Federico Pena leaving the Cabinet, Clinton was under pressure to name a Hispanic to a top job. Now Richardson will have to give up the derring-do of his foreign escapades for the more refined cocktail diplomacy of a United Nations envoy. But the U.N. post could well be a launching point for the final adventure Richardson has always craved--being Governor of New Mexico...
...Flaps and Seals," students study the finer points of surreptitiously opening and resealing letters. "Tradecraft" course work includes picking up messages from dead drops, clandestine photography of enemy documents and the use of disguises. In another tutorial, a cocktail party is staged where students learn how to strike up a conversation with a potential source. Sometimes even the wives of recruits are taught how to spot foreign agents tailing them...
...powerful melody and let it work its magic. Their sophomore production and first full-length record, Mass Teen Fainting, is a blend of potent songs, merging a fifties surf-garage feel with the driving energy of power pop. Their concoction is a Beach-Boys-meets-Shonen-Knife puree, and cocktail leaves the listener with a smile and a tune...