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...fact, when the potent ART combination therapy first emerged in the mid-1990s, government health officials recommended that anyone with a CD4 count of 500 cells or lower receive treatment. But in response to growing concerns over HIV's increasing ability to become resistant to the drugs, as well as worries over the drugs' toxicity and patients' inconsistent compliance with their regimen, the guidelines dropped to 200 before eventually settling at 350 cells - much further along in the progression of the disease...
Fewer Bentleys cruise the streets of Moscow these days, sushi sales are down, and construction on Europe's tallest tower has halted for lack of money. For fashionistas at the opening of the 18th annual Russian Fashion Week on Sunday, the most potent sign of the times was the sight of people wearing last year's styles. "Even the very rich aren't just going out and buying anymore," says Tatyana Ageyeva, a buyer who has worked for élite labels like Kenzo and Hugo Boss for nearly a decade. "Before, the wealthy would buy expensive things because they didn...
...clever wordplay does not an Elvis Costello make. That is not to say that “Grr…” is uniformly without merit. There are moments, few as they are in this album, where Bishop Allen does move beyond the formula. The band is most potent on the four-song stretch from “Dirt on Your Shoes” to “True and False.” “Dirt on Your Shoes” is the strongest, because it is the only song that grows and surprises, moving from...
...talking with Wang and Song it's easy to get the feeling that it's not so much China that's unhappy and angry, but the authors themselves. The brand of nationalism they preach is still a potent force, but they seem more upset about rivalries at home than abroad. Wang cautions that the book's title is a bit of a ruse. "To be frank, those words in the title Unhappy China are just for the purpose of promoting the book in the marketplace," he says. "We didn't choose them. It was the people selling the book...
Keeping the Americans in is still the most potent glue. Old NATO hands (like this author) can no longer count all those Euro-American crises and collisions that threatened to demolish the coalition about twice a year. The almost-breaking point came in 2002-03, when Paris, Berlin and Moscow joined hands against President George W. Bush and his war in Iraq. And yet the Alliance held...