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...numerous personalities in Angels in America are all fending off the scourges of their particular moment in history: AIDS, bribery, addiction, isolation. Prior Walter (Jesse Hawkes '99) announces early in the play that he has HIV, or as he terms it, with typical flamboyant humeur, "The Foreign Lesion; I'm a Lesion-aire, Lesion-aire's disease...
Other states faced with recent Pfiesteria outbreaks have been less aggressive than Maryland. When 14 million fish died in North Carolina in 1995, some state officials publicly mocked the scientist who discovered the bacteria, and the state has resisted adopting major reforms. Across the Chesapeake Bay, Virginia is seeing lesion rates as high as 75% in its Rappahannock River but has decided to keep it open. Glendening says each state must make its own decisions, but that for Maryland the recent outbreak requires stern action. "The Chesapeake Bay is a fundamental part of what Maryland is," he says...
...month after the first operation, the same surgeons made a last-ditch effort to remove the rest of the tumor. But when they went into Elizabeth's brain, they couldn't find the lesion. As planned, they removed a section of the nerve that the cancer had invaded, knowing that it would leave her blind in her right eye but agreeing that it represented her best hope of surviving. When the tissue was examined, the pathologist could not find any cancer. Regular cat scans since then have revealed no evidence of a tumor. The medical community calls what happened "spontaneous...
...Herpes can range from a minor medical condition to a self-defining trait with physical and emotional implications," Ebel said. "Basically, transmission requires skin-to-skin contact, usually at the site of a lesion, with some abrasion...
...Hanks is! All you have to do to win an Oscar is play someone in a wheelchair, or someone blind, or someone gay. Besides, he looks better at the end of his life than most people do in their prime. It's like a bad hair day with a lesion...