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...intentioned patients here to appreciate. TIME spoke with a patient advocate, 31, who goes by the pseudonym Ke'Er. He was infected after selling blood and was admitted to a study in Beijing that provided free U.S. antiretroviral drugs, but he accidentally left his two-month supply on the train after his most recent visit to the city. "I dared not tell my doctor," he said, "because I felt bad that I was offered this opportunity but I lost my medicine. So I found a Thai drug cocktail that is similar, and I'm taking that now." He doesn...
Maybe no one should be out there in surf that is as high as an eight-story building and breaks every 20 seconds with the force of a Union Pacific train. But, as Hamilton would be the first to say, big-wave surfing is not about playing it safe. It's about the thrill of taming that killer wave...
...Last Train Hugh Sidey described the journey of Nancy Reagan and her family as they flew to Ronald Reagan's grave site in California [THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY, June 21]. After the sudden death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1945, Eleanor Roosevelt took a similar journey as a special train carried F.D.R.'s coffin from Warm Springs, Georgia, where he died, to Washington and then to Hyde Park, New York. The train drew hundreds of thousands of mourners all along its route, many openly weeping as the cars moved by. Here is part of our report on the first...
...special train waiting to carry [Eleanor Roosevelt] north was at the little wooden station. Soldiers lifted the flag-draped casket into the last car where other soldiers, sailors and marines would stand guard over it. The band played on & on; the drums echoed hollowly in the hot valley. Leaning on [an aide's] arm ... she steadily went aboard. The train moved slowly out of Warm Springs. At Atlanta, steel-helmeted soldiers lined the station platform, crowds filled windows overlooking the smoky terminal ... The train rumbled on, past fields where farmers tied their mules and stood at the fences with their...
...every Olympics, taking home gold six times. In 2000, they won their seventh title. "Hungary has lots of spas," says Kemény, who coached the squad to gold in Sydney and hopes to repeat that success at this year's Summer Games. Nature's gift allowed players to train all year round even before the era of indoor swimming pools. But can Hungary rule the pool in Athens, where it will face one of the tightest fields in Olympic history? At least half of the 12 teams in the competition, including perennial powers Russia and Serbia-Montenegro, are contenders...