Word: glasers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...asked Rob Glaser, the notoriously fair-minded boss of Seattle-based RealNetworks, if he ever had any friends in the recording industry. He said he did--and still does. He claims that JukeBox won't hurt traditional recording interests and may even do good by educating people about the importance of protecting intellectual property. "People like artists," he said. Glaser points out that JukeBox comes preconfigured in an antipiracy mode that warns users not to violate copyright laws and prevents stored copies of songs from being sent from your hard drive to the Internet. Of course, you can bypass this...
...those Gen X kids were lazy, ignorant losers, but I guess I was wrong. They're actually brilliant, ambitious, ironic folks who live at home till they're 30 and watch as much TV as they can!" I hope I'm not going to be redefined next issue. ROB GLASER Chicago...
Actor and director Paul Glaser has faced bad news before. Eleven years ago, he and his wife Elizabeth learned that she had been infected with HIV during a blood transfusion and had unknowingly passed the infection on to their two children, Ariel and Jake. Since then both Glaser's wife and his daughter have died. So he wasn't altogether surprised when doctors told him in November that the levels of HIV in Jake's blood had started to climb--a sign that the 12-year-old's immune system was beginning to fail. But neither was Glaser totally prepared...
Undaunted, Glaser decided to take the chance that might save his only remaining child. "If you're drowning in a river, and someone throws you something that looks like it will float and looks like it might not, you're still going to grab onto it--aren't you?" he asks. Glaser's gamble seems to have paid off. Within two weeks of starting treatment, Jake's viral count had dropped below his doctors' ability to measure...
...fully developed. Their brains are more vulnerable to HIV. When they get sick with AIDS, many of them deteriorate more rapidly than adults. They need treatments tailored to their size and condition. "But pharmaceutical companies do not perceive pediatric drugs as a huge market share," says Glaser, chairman of the Pediatric AIDS Foundation co-founded by his wife with two of her friends in 1988. "They're not going to spend a lot of time and money on it unless we give them the incentive...