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...Kunming, Yunnan The neatly dressed husband and wife are in their 50s and comfortingly average looking. Their once-smooth dark skin is now veined and burnished to a proud sheen, reflecting the decades of hard work they have put into raising a family, earning their salaries and, now, battling...
...That was how this couple, who declined to give their names, got the AIDS virus. They have kept it a secret from everyone but their immediate family, preferring not to risk being ostracized by their community. "Nobody knows," says the wife quietly. "They would not understand." The husband, as far as they can determine, was the first to get infected, perhaps from blood transfusions during surgery. It wasn't until his wife required an operation in 2001, however, that they were both found to be HIV positive. "I could not believe it," she says. "I told them they were totally...
...second chair was less glamorous than taking the lead, and it didn't come naturally to someone so outspoken, eloquent and whip-smart. But it gave Elizabeth what she wanted--more manageable hours and more time to spend with her children. And it was great training for advising her husband through a meteoric six-year rise from political neophyte to vice-presidential nominee. "I feel like I've honed my skills as a sounding board as well as anyone possibly could," Elizabeth said last week. "I try to be effective and honest, someone who tells him when what...
...political commodity he's become. Early in the Democratic primaries, when the candidate's schedule called for him to perform the photo-op ritual of flipping pork burgers at the Iowa State Fair, Elizabeth nixed the idea as too phony. Later, when she felt the ads produced by her husband's media consultant, David Axelrod, didn't convey who he really was, her objections led to Axelrod's being replaced...
...husband becomes Vice President, Elizabeth's first job will still be raising her kids. But she'll venture into issues, especially education. As one Edwards adviser puts it, "She has the smarts of Hillary Clinton and the charm of Tipper Gore." Friends say she would bring a refreshing lack of pretension to her new life. "She never puts on airs," says Washington pal Bonnie LePard. "In fact, sometimes she doesn't even put on shoes." (Elizabeth, LePard explains, once joined a campaign strategy meeting at her home barefoot and dressed in overalls.) Mostly, though, she would continue...