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...particular gene--known as nef, for negative factor--that it is hard to imagine how the gene could perform any useful function. And sure enough, while the Sydney virus retains the ability to infect T cells--white blood cells that are critical to the immune system's ability to ward off infection--it makes so few copies of itself that the most powerful molecular tools can barely detect its presence. Some of the infected Australians, for example, were found to carry as few as one or two copies of the virus for every 100,000 T cells. People with aids...
...replaced a city government run by a popularly elected mayor, a city council of 15 elected in both at-large and ward districts, and a school committee of seven...
...bench looked as much like a ward of Stillman Infirmary as a soccer team, and it would be impossible to expect tremendous soccer from such a battered bunch...
...harrowing chronicle of her battle against the demon she calls "a psychic freight train of roaring despair." Thompson is uncommonly thoughtful on many levels--from her fearful childhood in a Southern fundamentalist family, to her confused entanglement with a harshly supportive man, to her hospitalization in a mental ward and her sunlit rescue by Prozac. Thompson's reporter's eye is unsparing, and she writes with tough grace. About one of her more hopeful moments: "Life did not get easier. But living...
...exhibit-goers tried to suck out of his paintings all they could, often standing before each one for minutes at a time, as if to swallow it whole and take it with them to ward off their fears of being alone. For, strangely, in his bleakrless came a certain comfort; seeing those 59 pictures together with hundreds of people made his solitude communal. And knowing that we were not as lonely as those in his pictures also gave a certain comfort...