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...TIME accompanied Ho and his team from the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center (ADARC) for two weeks earlier this year as he traveled from Kunming, the cosmopolitan capital of Yunnan province, where his drug-treatment and vaccine projects are based, to the remote border town of Ruili, where heavy heroin trafficking and a thriving sex trade create a perfect HIV breeding ground, to Beijing, for his meetings with party leaders, including the newly appointed Minister of Health, Wu Yi. Everywhere Ho went, his mission was the same: to persuade Chinese officials to step up their modest anti-AIDS efforts...
...sexes pieces, "The Unbearable Tediousness of Being," where a dull nebbish attempts to woo a distracted, hard-nippled Amazon-like woman. Further on appears the wordless examination of man's attempts at ordering nature, "ctrl," by Richard McGuire, an artist who virtually disappeared after creating "Here," a singular, diamond-like piece of brilliance almost fifteen years ago. The funniest piece belongs to Joe Matt, who's autobiographical "Toronto, Ontario. Canada" details his obsessive onanism and general poor living with horrifying candor. The breakout "unknown" artist is David Heatley, who provides poignant and funny vignettes of his father in "Portrait...
...Diamond defends the group's six-year layoff by explaining that "band business" occupied much of that time. The rest was spent tending to the band's alter egos. Horovitz released weird electronic music under the name BS 2000. Diamond recorded satirical country tunes--Don't Let the Air out My Tires, On Your Way Up Again (The Fowl Song)--under the name Country Mike. Yauch, who directs many of the Beasties' videos as imaginary Swiss auteur Nathanial Hornblower, oversaw the Beastie Boys DVD Video Anthology for the Criterion Collection...
Having walked all possible avenues of procrastination, the Beastie Boys started a new album just before Sept. 11. When the planes hit, the three lower-Manhattan residents justifiably took some more time off. When they began recording in earnest, "we kind of anticipated making a pretty serious record," says Diamond. "Maybe a fifty-fifty balance of serious to ridiculously silly. But as I say, there's no plan...
Rare Indian gems earned the CARTIER DIAMOND NECKLACE once worn by the wealthy Newport socialite a record price...