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...Julie Christie, who took the Most Notable Movie Thesping by a Person of the Female Persuasion prize for Away from Her, looked preternaturally glamorous at 66. Christie was 42 years removed from her first Oscar nomination, for the swinging Londoner of Darling, but she could have passed for that seductive bitch's older sister, not the elderly lady fading into Alzheimer's she played in her little Canadian movie. Reeling off the names of a dozen producers and fellow actors from the film, she smiled and added, "And if I've forgotten anyone, it's just because I'm still...
Doctors also worry that over the long term, people may build up resistance to ARVs - dangerous if a non-infected person takes the drugs prophylactically, then becomes infected later - or that HIV itself will become drug resistant. Greene says individuals using a single antiretroviral drug run a higher risk of developing resistance - combo drugs seem to lower the probability. Human trials of combined retrovirals are under way - in high-risk groups such as sex workers and gay men, both in the U.S. and elsewhere - but results of those studies won't be available for at least another year...
...This is the real Romney, the man behind the millions of dollars in television advertising and over-bland messaging. Unfortunately for him, it is a person who the candidate has hidden for much of the campaign, as he tried to present himself not as the person he is, but the product he thought he should be. Thanks to that miscalculation, voters in Iowa, South Carolina and New Hampshire were bombarded with television ads and direct mail about "strength" and "optimism," his distain for illegal immigration and the three-legged stool of the conservative coalition he only joined in the last...
...days tick down to Florida's Tuesday vote, with Romney in a tight race with John McCain to win the state, there is evidence that he has learned some lessons. The initial product launch failed, so he has recreated himself as something not so far from the person he actually is - a nerd, who knows how to handle money and make things work...
Fischer declined to defend his title in 1975, and by forfeit, it passed back into the embrace of the Soviets, in the person of Anatoly Karpov. According to all accounts, Fischer had descended into isolation and anger after winning that final match game against Spassky. Fischer didn't play again until a brief and disturbing reappearance in 1992, after which his genius never again touched a piece in public. Having conquered the chess Olympus, he was unable to find a new target for his power and passion...