Word: patients
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Anyone who saw The English Patient knows that return trips aren't always easy in the desert, and Augustin soon discovers that he has no more idea how to return to Jean-Michel then he does how to find the lost regiment. His heat-stroked, knock-kneed peregrinations around the desert land him into new trouble, especially when he steals water from a Bedouin maiden. The resultant man-hunt sends Augustin hiding in a deep crevasse in a large, barren plateau, but no sooner has he escaped their swords than he runs into a whole new set of daggers, this...
...matter-of-factness of Passion in the Desert is both its supreme virtue and its most precarious pitfall. After all the resplendence of Lawrence of Arabia and The English Patient, Currier's image of the desert as an inhospitable realm, physically and psychically rocky for those unused to its contours, is a welcome inclusion to the motion picture atlas. Currier's distaste for dramatics, however, is somewhat crippling to her narrative, which so carefully withdraws from any hint of comedy or irony that it inches closer and closer to forsaking emotion altogether. Currier is clearly and artist of proficiency...
...Protease inhibitors are the cornerstone of our HIV therapy," Dr. Frederick Hecht of the University of California and San Francisco General Hospital told the conference. "People had hoped that PIs would be significant enough to make it difficult or impossible for the virus to be transmitted." Sadly, this patient, part of a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, indicates otherwise. It is yet another reminder to scientists that a cure for AIDS still dances well beyond their reach -- and that a vaccine, now more than ever, is the field's Holy Grail...
Finally, know this: when the stock market throws a sale, I buy hundreds of thousands of shares, and the price often goes lower before it goes higher. But if I've done my homework, I usually profit by being patient, and so will...
Although I work for the New York Times, I'm writing you as a cancer patient undergoing treatment. You maligned science reporter Gina Kolata's Times article on new cancer drugs for creating "false hopes" in patients most in need of a breakthrough [SPECIAL REPORT: CURING CANCER, May 18]. Not only does your own follow-up reporting belie that charge (clearly there is sufficient new hope to call for a TIME cover story), but if you interview enough cancer patients, you'll find that hope is its own drug, false or not. Are you implying that cancer patients would rather...