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Although Wink said she expects below-zero temperatures and lots of snow, she forgot she would be facing a "different kind of cold" after spending months in comparatively balmy Boston...
...blood tests indicated that the viral load was close to zero throughout the middle years, though it would gradually increase as time went by. Both Ho and Shaw realized, however, that zero doesn't always equal zero in the world of HIV. For one thing, the virus might be hiding out in the lymph nodes, where it could be producing thousands or even millions of copies of itself every day. As long as the immune system cleared those infectious particles as quickly as they formed, blood tests would show no change in viral load. "It's like a person running...
Some of the men have been treated for more than a year. None of them show any trace of HIV in any of their blood. Ho has not forgotten, however, that zero does not always equal zero. He and Markowitz are looking for pockets of virus in the lymph tissue, the semen and the spinal fluid...
...Internet, which pushes the cost of spreading the word down near zero, could carry this atomizing trend to unplumbed depths. Of course it may not, but already it has taken the first step: empowering legions of obscure but enterprising people who harbor ambitions of spiritual leadership. Out on the fringe of the World Wide Web, beyond mainstream religion, storefront preachers and offbeat theologies are springing up like mushrooms. Here--as in many realms of culture and politics these days--the forces of fragmentation compete with the forces of integration...
Government intervention in the 1960s reduced the number of uninsured Americans over age 65 from 50 percent to zero, said Kerrey, a specialist on entitlement reform, but between 1995 and 1996, more than one million Americans went from being insured to being uninsured...