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...meantime, doctors are concentrating on refining treatment procedures. They are mainly relying on a combination of antivirals such as ribavirin, immunosuppressant steroids that stop the immune system from devouring itself and a serum containing antibodies from recovered SARS patients that is injected into current victims. The cocktail seems to be working, with most of the deaths thus far confined to the elderly or those with pre-existing medical conditions. Doctors also suspect that as the disease is passed on second- and thirdhand, the virus might lose its potency. Says Dr. Joseph Sung, chief of service at the Prince of Wales...
...nightly saturnalia at Stonewall produce protests that would kick start the modern gay-rights movement? The uprising was inspirited by a potent cocktail of pent-up rage (raids of gay bars were brutal and routine), overwrought emotions (hours earlier, thousands had wept at the funeral of Judy Garland) and drugs. As a 17-year-old cross-dresser was being led into the paddy wagon and got a shove from a cop, she fought back. "[She] hit the cop and was so stoned, she didn't know what she was doing--or didn't care," one of her friends later told...
...wedding photo on a mantelpiece. In the big picture, they become part of 80 years' worth of collective memories. The close encounters we profile in the following pages aren't always first meetings; often they are the first significant ones. But sooner or later, they all created a cocktail of personalities--gin and vermouth, nitro and glycerin--that changed us. In a world that often seems out of people's control, these meetings prove that intimacy still matters; that a chance collision of two individuals can make a difference in how millions of the rest of us are enfranchised, enriched...
...supposed to be on the defensive. The U.S., which believes the group has ties to al-Qaeda, had set out to crush its stronghold in the mountains near Iran. For more than two hours that morning, Ansar had been hit by what a Kurdish combat commander described as "a cocktail of Tomahawk and cruise missiles." As many as 40 missiles rained down over the snowy Shinerwe Mountain from U.S. warships in the Red Sea, killing dozens and destroying an ammunition dump and a string of the terrorists' forward bunkers...
...leader who was a fixture of G.O.P. conventions from 1956 to 1992; in Century City, Calif. He prided himself on knowing the tastes of G.O.P. leaders--such as Ronald Reagan's favorite song, the theme from Doctor Zhivago. Asked about his political affiliation, he replied: "I belong to the Cocktail Party...