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...Person of the Year for his pioneering work on the drug therapies that have largely quelled the AIDS epidemic in the U.S. and Europe. Now Ho is confronting the AIDS virus in its most populous stronghold. Up to 1 million Chinese are HIV positive, and that number could easily grow to 10 million by 2010, according to the Joint U.N. Program on AIDS. If current trends continue for another decade or so, China could overtake Africa, where 29 million people have been infected with the virus...
...reversible misunderstandings grow into irreversible tragedy, it slowly dawns on you that this is a superior, heartbreaking film. --By Richard Schickel...
...consider. Doctors agree that polyps measuring 10 mm or more in diameter need to be removed, although during a conventional colonoscopy, even smaller, very low-risk growths are taken out. In a virtual colonoscopy, current practice is just to watch them until the next procedure to see if they grow. "Some patients and some doctors aren't going to be comfortable leaving anything behind," predicts Dr. Thomas LaMont of Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. So while the virtual colonoscopy is providing ever better results, the conventional colonoscopy is still the gold standard for preventing colon cancer...
...COVER Photograph for TIME by Jason Grow...
...advice," says Peter Chan, producer of CG2 who also directed Tsang in the actor's two Hong Kong Film Awards-winning performances in Comrade: Almost a Love Story and Alan & Eric. "He is probably the most generous person ever in this business. He has helped groom and grow a whole bunch of talent, including myself...