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...fair, novels on the AIDS epidemic, necessarily, are tricky creatures. The impact of the disease has been as complex as finding a cure, and to capture somehow these complexities with words must be one of the most formidable tasks available to the contemorary literati. And, like finding a cure, the writing of the AIDS novel, or novels, will be marked by marry wrong turns, trial, error, frustrations, advances, despair and hope. Gone Tomorrow, though interesting in its premise and ambitious in its multi-oriented goal, seems like an experiment that leads to no major breakthrough. Though ultimately unsuccessful, it remains...
...AIDS VIRUS, MAY not show overt symptoms for years. Even so, they are often given AZT, a drug believed to lengthen the lives of those with full-blown AIDS. Several studies have shown that AZT can delay the onset of symptoms, though it doesn't prevent or cure the disease...
Plus, expansion hasn't been the cure-all that civic officials have hoped for. Toronto and Montreal both got teams through expansion, and Canada stands divided between its English and French speaking parks (though this can't be blamed entirely on any Blue Jay Expo rivalry, because they play in different leagues...
That is why the advice of a Food and Drug Administration panel is being widely hailed. The committee urged the FDA to approve a new drug, tacrine, as the first treatment ever for Alzheimer's. Tacrine is no cure. It just slows the disease's progress, and only for about 20% of sufferers. Considering the horrific nature of the illness, the panel felt that even a little relief is better than none. While the FDA doesn't have to go along, it probably will...
Many stabilization programs have failed in the past, but unless some attempt is made to cure its hyperinflation, Russia could go the way of Weimar Germany following World War I. At that time, when the West refused to help rebuild Germany's economy, the stage was set for Hitler's rise. Conjuring a Russian Hitler may be farfetched, but a Russian dictator with nukes surely would distract Clinton from his single-minded focus on rebuilding America...