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...AIDS is an epidemic our generation has to face, hopefully with compassion,” Murphy said. “But compassion isn’t a solution, research into possible cures, education, and relief to those who can’t afford the expensive cocktail of drugs are proactive efforts…When faced with the Quilt, the disease became very real to me. The 40,000 Americans infected each year is not just a number; it is a life affected and changed forever...
...first trick with Centro is finding the entrance to the restaurant, which is located inside the Good Life. This feature is both a plus and a minus: By the time we made it past the Good Life’s amber-lit cocktail lounge, we certainly lost all sense of having a quiet evening out. But the energetic vibe of the bar—buzzing with a well-dressed yet laid-back crowd—is a great locale for pre-dinner cocktails or post-dinner shot-taking. Apparently, the good life seems to involve stiff drinks...
...Each country accuses the other of using diplomats as a cover for spying. So India and Pakistan both routinely tap each other's embassy telephones, tail diplomats around the cocktail circuit and sometimes have dispatched gigolos to seduce each other's wives for future blackmail. One barometer of the chill between India and Pakistan is the frequency with which they toss out each other's diplomats. The temperature is decidedly frosty: last week, Indian police allegedly slapped around and expelled a Pakistani diplomat for spying, and the Pakistanis responded in kind. In South Asia, the "foreign hand" is always restless...
...Christie. "But if we drink, we put ourselves out there." Her friend Jenn Richardson says the objective is "to get drunk as quickly as possible." Richardson has built up quite a tolerance, so she says this usually takes her about five shots of hard alcohol, two ciders and a cocktail. The unshocking result: "I am more talkative, I meet new people, and yes, I remember them...
...today's young women may need to take a lesson from the early feminists who fought so stridently for temperance. Jodie Rosenbloom, a senior at Syracuse University, is striking out along that path. After drinking away many of her freshman-year weekends, she has gradually scaled back to a cocktail at happy hour or wine with dinner and feels much better for it. "I'm referring now to something I learned in a women's studies course I took," she says. "In the wave of feminism we're in right now, women shouldn't be emphasizing sameness with...