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James' hospital called in Stephan Kennedy, an outreach worker who deals exclusively with HIV-infected and AIDS patients such as James. To Kennedy the young man's incomprehension was painfully familiar. "I used a lot of analogies," Kennedy recalls. "I said, 'The HIV is a worm, and the apple is your body. The worm gets into your body, eats a little and then goes to sleep. Then it wakes up again and starts eating some more and some more and some more, until the apple becomes rotten. And that is what is happening...
...miserable little worm...
...surprise that the first CD-ROM from the eyeball-headed San Francisco group should be called Freak Show -- a virtual version of their 1990 set. The user enters a carnival big top to see and hear such freaks as Harry the Head, Herman the Human Mole, Wanda the Worm Woman, Jello Jack the Boneless Boy and Bouncing Benny the Bump. Later the user can wander backstage and sneak into the freaks' trailers, flip through their photo albums, read their love letters, watch music videos on their TV sets. Animated by Jim Ludtke, Freak Show has an artfully eerie feel...
...does the worm turn. I can momentarily, at least, rest easy, knowing that my dilemma rests in the very competent hands of Ronn Tomassoni--he won't pull the trigger on either one of them until he's absolutely sure in his decision...
...malls; onward, ever onward, until it comes to rest 160 miles later among the black neighborhoods of Durham. It is narrow, as narrow in some spots as one lane of the I-85 Interstate highway. Its friends call it "a string of pearls." Most people settle for "snake" or "worm." But what it is, obviously and manifestly, is a gerrymander...