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...FREED. YAO WENYUAN, about 65, believed to be the sole surviving member of China's infamous "Gang of Four"; after serving all of a 20-year sentence for inciting violence during the Cultural Revolution; in Shanghai...
...interview in Senegal, the woman said that she did not wish to be interviewed. "She told me that what I imagined about her life was more interesting than her life--that it was not her story, but my story. So she pushed me toward fiction, and she freed me to incorporate some of myself". Ladd insists that the novel is a product of her imagination based in her own experience, and so, while not autobiographical, the novel strongly overlaps with her life...
Then what happens? Cutting off treatment for patients taking the multidrug regimes would be a tragedy, and not just for the individual patients. Suddenly freed from that chemical barrage, the HIV in their bodies could easily become resistant to one or more drugs. If these patients infect anyone else before they die, an entirely new superstrain of HIV could be unleashed on the world--precipitating another and even more frightening public health crisis...
That's a lot of money to throw at a service that has yet to produce any major revenue. In fact, cable operators' network upgrades are aimed at much richer and more important prizes, chief among them their own survival. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 freed media giants of all persuasions to compete in one another's markets. With everybody from the Baby Bells to Bill Gates breathing down their neck, cable operators have little choice but to lay fiber over their aging coax networks as the old analog media converge into one big digital stream. High-speed Net access...
Facilitating this intense upsurge of activity was the development of specialized instruments and technologies to deal with the basic chemical mechanisms by which cells reproduce, develop, thrive, maintain their internal equilibrium, protect themselves against harm and communicate with one another. Medical disciplines such as immunology and genetics were suddenly freed from the limitations that had long constrained them...