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...conference. "People had hoped that PIs would be significant enough to make it difficult or impossible for the virus to be transmitted." Sadly, this patient, part of a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, indicates otherwise. It is yet another reminder to scientists that a cure for AIDS still dances well beyond their reach -- and that a vaccine, now more than ever, is the field's Holy Grail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIDS Slips the Noose Again | 7/1/1998 | See Source »

...Beautiful Mind, by journalist Sylvia Nasar, is a miracle of resurrection. Mindful of that fragile journey, Nash pondered, "But maybe it's not such a great thing. Suppose you have an artist. He's rational. But suppose he cannot paint. He can function normally. Is it really a cure? Is it really salvation?" Consider the tragedy of Michael Laudor, who recovered but was not saved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Precarious Genius | 6/29/1998 | See Source »

...that Ace might end up subsidizing a bunch of guys in gold chains and heavy cologne taking the drug for "enhancement" purposes, as one more hedge against middle-age insecurity, like Rogaine. The hospital will be weeding them out. Anyway, what they're looking for is a pill to cure rejection. Not even Ace has enough money for that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Things in Life Aren't Free | 6/22/1998 | See Source »

...coalition, including its spokes-Jeremiah, George Plimpton, would have you believe that milk causes heart disease, cancer, infections, asthma, allergies and tuberculosis. Robert Cohen, founder of the ADC (and author of Milk: The Deadly Poison), writes: "The Fountain of Youth and cure to illness can be obtained by giving up milk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Evils Of Milk? | 6/15/1998 | See Source »

...character: Rockefeller's father, William Avery Rockefeller, a backwoods mountebank and snake-oil pitchman whose history John D. tried to suppress. "Big Bill" Rockefeller, crack shot and con artist, claimed to be a medical doctor and, in the gullible towns of upstate New York and farther west, promised to cure any cancer for $25. Eventually, "Doc" Rockefeller (who made a habit of impregnating the servant girl at home) became a bigamist and started a separate family as "Doctor Levingston"--the name that appears on his tombstone. All his life, Big Bill loved money, and when he had it, he tied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: John D. Rockefeller: Oil In The Family | 6/15/1998 | See Source »

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