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...waist had six extra holes punched in it. He wore a diaper in case of diarrhea. Lit by a fearsome spotlight, the tiny figure paused for a few seconds, took a deep breath and began. "Care for us and accept us - we are all human beings. We are normal. We have hands. We have feet. We can walk, we can talk, we have needs just like everyone else...
...infected with AIDS, Nkosi was born with it. He met his father for the first time at his mother's funeral. Taken in as an infant by Gail Johnson, a middle-class white woman who met him while volunteering at a Johannesburg AIDS care center, Nkosi lived a relatively normal childhood. He loved puzzles and cards. "He cheated like hell," remembers Gail. When the former P.R. executive first enrolled Nkosi in primary school, they met opposition from some parents because of his HIV status. Mother and child went public with a complaint and won. Nkosi dreamed of lecturing on AIDS...
...appearances, are not just older adults. The human body goes through changes as it ages, externally and internally. The elderly often have less muscle mass, a slower metabolism and greater sensitivity to certain drugs. Yet the recommended dosages for most medications are based on a 154-lb. man of normal metabolism--with no allowance...
...weren't? Suppose that representations of real people were rarer than hens' teeth and that the only artificial faces and figures we had to look at were imaginary, mythical and sacred--Jesus and the saints, the gods of Olympus and the like? What if we never saw, in the normal course of life, a recognizable picture of anyone we knew? What, in other words, if we were like nearly everyone in Europe prior to 1400? "It is hard to exaggerate," writes Woods-Marsden, "the degree of modernity informing the invention of the independent, profane portrait in the early Renaissance...
...comes across as bright, confident, driven and irreverent. By turns guarded (like about that pesky succession question) and candid, curious and sarcastic, humble and profane, he remains a paradoxical character, but no more so than any other twentysomething millionaire. He likes to cast his upbringing and his family as "normal," but to almost everyone else, his life and his station are extraordinary. To date, STAR has thrived under his watch, but many questions remain, among them: How does a 29-year-old conquer multimillion dollar markets in India and China while further securing a place for himself in the Murdoch...