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...birth, and had time to mutate. Even if the baby did pick up HIV from his mother, that doesn't mean he was infected. Immunologists know that living cells from mothers often get passed along to newborns, where the cells generally die within a few months. And, says Dr. Max Essex, chairman of the Harvard AIDS Institute, "it hasn't been rigorously proven that the infection was in the infant's own cells...
...could be a famous living woman, who would you be? I'd say Tina Turner because in Mad Max beyond Thunderdome she had this really cools crossbow thing. Hmm...no, the woman in the Timex commercial. This woman jumps out of an airplane (she's a hard-core skydiver). Her chutes don't open. She smashes into the ground form serious heights, does not die, just bruises her tailbone, and she's still jumping today. And then there's Sigourney Weaver in Alien. But I would say the Timex woman...
...monsters, mind you, and we love them to death. There's Nick, who likes to swing out of trees or monkey bars onto coaches' necks, wrestling them to the ground. Or Jamie, who will randomly lie down on the field during scrimmages and refuse to play. And there's Max--the only player on our team to draw a red card for inappropriate language--who a few weeks ago slipped away from the gym at the school where we were practicing and was caught by a janitor in a (previously locked) third-grade classroom, tearing down posters and overturning desks...
...does one get such talented, physical kids? You need a strong front office. We have that in the form of team mother Paula, the PTA officer and school volunteer who scouts out the top athletes and aggressively recruits. Recently, we got Max's mother installed as the league coordinator; we're still seeing how to use that development to our advantage...
...past half-century: jazz diva Shirley Horn, Beat poet Allen Ginsberg, cafa swell Bobby Short, folk singer Pete Seeger and Professor Irwin Corey, the "World's Foremost Authority," who was once a comic mainstay of the club. Back in the '40s, when the Vanguard's founder, the late Max Gordon, asked the professor whether he thought the place would last 60 years, Corey replied, "It's a small club...