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Despite rising casualties, Washington kept tight purse strings on funding for AIDS research for much of the 1980s. By 1987, though, even Ronald Reagan knew that AIDS was a serious threat. The plague had encircled the globe, stretching from Africa to Asia. The antibody test revealed the presence of HIV in the blood supplies of the U.S., France and Japan. The FDA approved use of the antiviral drug AZT in a record 14 weeks...
...daughter, who also carries the virus, is not. Three months ago, she lay helpless in a local hospital. In just two weeks her weight dropped from 32 to 22 lbs. Even so, her father could not find a doctor who would risk giving her the new drugs. "They kept telling me, 'No, there are no data for children.' I said, 'Listen, if I don't get this medicine, I'm going to lose...
Anybody who had one might have gone through the past few years differently. AIDS encouraged a lot of clean living. People started to take their health seriously. There were vows of chastity, some of them kept. Among gays, the epidemic also helped forge a solidarity, with implications that have only just begun to work their way through the larger culture...
...presidency. America did not get involved in a larger war in Bosnia and did not intervene in Burundi, Liberia, Zaire or Sudan. No fuss arose about the illegal fund-raising practices of the Democrats. No fury erupted when it was revealed that Swiss bankers kept Nazi loot stolen from Holocaust victims...
...Venus. The true story of a 19th century Hottentot woman shipped from Africa to England and displayed as a freak was turned into a chilly but gripping play by Suzan-Lori Parks. The social commentary was kept at arm's length by her neo-Brechtian stylization; director Richard Foreman's deep-space staging (at New York City's Public Theater) made it haunting...