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...hospital emergency rooms and talking to colleagues, he and his team at UCLA identified four young homosexual men suffering from the flu-like symptoms of a primary HIV infection. Ho used a newly available tool of genetic engineering--the PCR test used most famously in the O.J. Simpson trial--to measure the amount of virus in the blood. Once again, he was astonished...
Looming above the year's other personalities like a dazed Colossus was the personality of the past quarter-century, O.J. Simpson, along with his enlarging retinue of lawyers, prosecutors, agents, accusers, defenders, police, forensic experts, talk-show hosts and Faye Resnick. Most of the media decided that there was nothing more important for the public to know about--not Russia, not China, not Iran, not much of the U.S.--than O.J. Those with an interest in history could note that America's involvement with O.J. was nearing the length of its involvement in World War II, which was not covered...
...Browns, the day was full of foreboding. Denise Brown could not sit still. The sister of Nicole Brown Simpson was expecting the worst and knew how the news would arrive: by fax from the Orange County, California, judge who was deciding where O.J. Simpson's two children would live. Desperate for distraction, Denise and her mother Juditha set off on a Christmas shopping trip, looking for snowboarding equipment...
...page decision, Orange County Superior Court Judge Nancy Wieben Stock terminated Lou and Juditha Brown's guardianship of the children, declaring they had failed to prove, as California law requires, that a return to Simpson's custody would be detrimental to the children. From his Brentwood home, O.J. Simpson issued a "first and final" statement about regaining custody, saying he was "grateful to have the children home again where they want to be." He requested that the media and the public "allow my children their privacy and to live in as normal an environment as possible...
Brown family attorney Natasha Roit charged that the judge had failed to consider the children's statements to a court-appointed psychiatrist; statements, she said, that would have shown that they had witnessed domestic violence in the Simpson home. Said Roit: "I believe the children are at substantial risk with Simpson. This is a man who committed domestic violence in the past and continues to deny...