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Watching television, especially hits such as "Beverly Hills 90210" and "Jake and the Fatman," helped him assimilate into northern Florida's teenage lifestyle. The Siberian native, who still favors flannels and sweat-shirts, also fell in love with "Point Break," an action movie whose main characters are bank robbers and avid surfers...
...Francisco: Pat Barnes, QB, Cal. They probably considered QB Jake "the Snake" Plummer of Arizona State, who reminds people of Joe Montana...
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...
...Jake's doctors wanted to put the boy on protease inhibitors, the breakthrough new anti-HIV medications that, in combination with other antiviral drugs, have so dramatically changed the lives of tens of thousands of adults with AIDS over the past year. The Food and Drug Administration, however, hadn't yet approved the drugs for use in children, so no one knew how well the treatment would work. Furthermore, since children metabolize drugs more quickly than adults, physicians could only guess at the proper dosage. Too much could kill Jake. Too little might inadvertently create a mutant strain...
...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...