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...gauge of the progress of the disease. It can also predict survival. In a study of 181 HIV-positive patients, 65% of the subjects who began the study with 34,500 or more virus particles per milliliter were dead within five years. By contrast, all the subjects whose viral load was fewer than 5,000 particles survived. The hope is that when virus-testing kits become widely available, doctors will be able to judge accurately which patients are doing O.K. and which need aggressive therapy...
...Leno, whose late-night success has lightened the load for big-chinned individuals everywhere, has scored another big win. He has sold a book idea about his life to HarperCollins for $4 million. Just as on his show, somebody else will be writing his material...
Give Dreyfuss points for schlepping this load. Making effective use of his trademark dimple, braying giggle and comic exasperation with a world of slow learners, he takes teacher Glenn Holland through three decades of Americana, from Vietnam to 1995. Holland has a wife (Glenne Headly), a deaf son and, it turns out, a vocation for helping the young understand themselves through music. He becomes their drill sergeant, father confessor, patron saint. As the years pass, his students follow their stars while he, a frustrated composer, pours his ambition into them. It's the ambitious teacher's tragedy: your kids move...
...intelligence links with Iran. Ejup Ganic, the federation Vice President, gave Time official confirmation that Bosnia had received arms from Iran, bringing them through gaps in the nato no-fly zone. "What we received from Iran," he says, "it's kind of a science-fiction solution. You cannot load a ship with ammunition and bring it in a normal way." But Ganic won't quibble about cutting Iranian ties now. "You bring us stuff," he says, and "we won't look anywhere else...
...There may be students who logged on right before they left, had their machines infected and then left without knowing it," said Frank M. Steen, director of Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services. Symptoms of viral infection include an inability to access or load Windows with a repeated response of "Missing/Unable to load" at the C:> prompt...