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...well be that the more sophisticated and effective HIV treatments become, the fewer people will have access to them. This grim new calculus is painfully apparent to Patrick Roll, 41, of Boston, whose T-cell count has dropped below 50 and who takes nine capsules of the protease inhibitor saquinavir each day. Considering that he first tested positive in 1983, he is in remarkably good health. "I'm from a socioeconomic group that had careers," he notes. "We've been able to keep our insurance or afford to take it on ourselves." Not everyone is as fortunate as Roll...
Overseeing the Pearl series is music historian Artis Wodehouse, whose Gershwin Plays Gershwin album won raves when it came out in 1994. For that CD, Wodehouse rerecorded Gershwin's piano-roll performances by playing them on a Yamaha Disklavier, a kind of computer-driven player piano. The Pearl set is based on actual historic recordings--78s, Edison 80s, radio-broadcast acetates. Wodehouse painstakingly tracked them down around the country and cleaned them up for modern ears. "It's a shame that they got lost in the shuffle," says Wodehouse. "But great pop music comes back, and that is what...
...CEOs are reaping what stockholders sowed. Results, as published in corporate proxy statements, are just starting to roll in, but it is already clear that a gold rush is on. Says Joan Zimmerman, executive vice president of the placement firm G.Z. Stephens: "Profits were up wildly last year; as a result, bonus increases will be up by a similar amount...
...earth. And you can see canyons on its surface, 50 times deeper than our own Grand Canyon, where water obviously flowed. The question is, What happened? What sort of catastrophic event finished life on that planet?" The remote-controlled Soujourner rover, no bigger than a microwave oven, will roll out of the Pathfinder lander on six wheels and roam the planet inspecting rocks and weather for up to 30 days. The Smithsonian Institution in Washington plans to issue a daily Martian weather report...
Tensions were particularly high in May, after the Corporation rejected a faculty recommendation to roll back a one percent reduction in the University's contribution to retirement benefits...