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...That's exactly what anti-HIV drugs, known as antiretrovirals (ARVs), are designed to do: interrupt the virus at various points along its nefarious journey. The FDA has approved four different classes of ARVs, each of which blocks a separate step in HIV's life cycle. The strategy is to build up a security detail of pharmacological agents that together thwart the virus at every turn, making sure that every receptor, protein and enzyme that the virus co-opts to sneak into a cell is covered...
...bought both apples. (They were both good, although the California one had a mealy bit, possibly from its journey.) It's only recently that I had noticed more locally grown products in the supermarket, but when I got home I discovered that the organic-vs.-local debate has become one of the liveliest in the food world. Last year Wal-Mart began offering more organic products--those grown without pesticides, antibiotics, irradiation and so on--and the big company's expansion into a once alternative food culture has been a source of deep concern, and predictable backlash, among early organic...
When it was first staged in London (starring Laurence Olivier and directed by James Whale, who went off to Hollywood and gave us Frankenstein), Journey's End was hailed as an antiwar statement. The playwright, who served in France during the war (and went on to write films like The Invisible Man and Goodbye, Mr. Chips), always disputed that assessment. In fact, seen today in the absolutely riveting new production directed by David Grindley (based on his much acclaimed London revival of 2004), in the midst of another national debate about another war, the play is more poignantly and powerfully...
Polemics are the last thing Journey's End is interested in. The officers holed up in this dimly lit den on the eve of a major German offensive in March 1918 don't question the war or even talk much about it. They don't make speeches about lost comrades or pine for sweethearts back home whom they may never see again. They just eat and sleep, relieve one another on guard duty and complain about the meat cutlets. They do their duty, simply because there's nothing else...
...soldiers in Journey's End may be as doomed as the Japanese men who make a last stand in the caves of Iwo Jima. And the conflict they're caught up in may be as futile as the one Americans are wrestling with in 2007. But Sherriff's great play has no truck with anything as lofty as patriotism or sacrifice or even conscience. After it's all over, the bacon is still frying...