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...formidable enough opponent, mainly because researchers still don't understand the method to its madness. Like all viruses, HIV is simply a strand of genetic material (in this case the nucleic acid RNA) surrounded by a protein coat. A virus lacks the tools to reproduce unless it invades a living cell and takes over the host's molecular machinery. The intruder can then produce many copies of itself, eventually killing the cell. One of HIV's favorite targets is the CD4 T-cell, an important player in the human immune system...
...institution where he is sent lets him go. This is too much for Mom to bear, so she tracks down the guy and shoots him -- then has to stand trial herself. It's overwrought and unbelievable, but watchable because of Mills, who agonizes beautifully, down to her last unkempt strand of hair...
...could soon open over heavily populated regions in the northern hemisphere as well as the southern. This unprecedented assault on the planet's life-support system could have horrendous long-term effects on human health, animal life, the plants that support the food chain and just about every other strand that makes up the delicate web of nature. And it is too late to prevent the damage, which will worsen for years to come. The best the world can hope for is to stabilize ozone loss soon after the turn of the century...
Then Rodney arrives. As soon as he gets out ofhis grey Gang Peace van, he is surrounded by theboys. He asks who wants to go with him to see aplay at the Strand Theater that weekend...
...There were Chinese, Syrians, Italians, Jews from all over doing their best to appear to be native-born Americans. That's changed a lot. Now they realize the value of what they've been trying to shed. It should always be kept in mind that we are a diverse strand of peoples. But to break it down into what the Hungarians contributed, what the Russians contributed, the English, Irish and Germans contributed, I'm not sure that's a good idea. Are you willing to dilute the pure stream of history in order to investigate all the creeks that...