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...blame them? There was, after all, a new drug "cocktail" in town, and with assiduous self-medication, HIV-positive patients could now live virtually symptom-free for years. Everyone who could afford it was shoveling back the expensive combinations of drugs, and the side effects ranged from unpleasant to downright awful. But it sure as heck beat AIDS...
...corruption has cost the country some $48 billion over the past 20 years. It was precisely by (falsely) promising to eradicate corruption that Estrada had first cast himself in the role of a champion of the poor. In the final analysis, though, he may prove to have been a symptom rather than the cause of his nation's malaise...
...something is wrong--though it's not always clear just what the problem is. Doctors can't measure pain objectively the way they can blood pressure or cholesterol levels. So when pain doesn't immediately respond to treatment, physicians and patients often--too often--accept it as just another symptom that has to be lived with...
...woods holding a lyre. "Nude Youth with Lyre," from 1907, is "Marble Faun" redone at a much higher level of technical mastery, and, more importantly, it is the work of an artist committed to his tastes. Day's love of classical subject matter was surely more than a symptom of his desire to prove that photography was a fine art. He seems to have been genuinely fascinated with the exotic and the mystical. The wallpapered gallery reminds us that we are essentially in Day's home, viewing works that were personal and self-expressive...
...having a heart attack, and you can have a heart attack without the chest pains of angina. Fully one-third of all heart-attack victims feel no muscle pain at all, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association last summer. Their most common symptom is extreme shortness of breath or difficulty in breathing. Other signs include nausea, profuse sweating, lightheadedness, fainting, palpitations or unexplained anxiety...