The Cocktail
Closed mid-August 1996 · On stands late August 1996
The Front
Index of the Conference
Delegates registered, papers presented, the years since the virus was first named, the price of a first-class Vancouver-to-Newark ticket booked at the last minute
The Essay
The Cocktail
The protease-inhibitor breakthrough — saquinavir and ritonavir approvals, the Vancouver data — and the case that combination therapy is durable, not another false peak
What Vancouver Confirmed
The Eleventh International AIDS Conference and the durability question answered in the data, not the hallway talk
The Foreign File
The Kremlin's Second Round
A dispatch on Boris Yeltsin's runoff victory over Gennady Zyuganov, and the heart trouble the Kremlin is still not confirming
The Feature Well
The Buddy Program, Ten Years On
A profile of volunteers in Chicago's and San Francisco's buddy programs, whose work is starting, for the first time, to feel unfinished rather than futile
The Olympic Summer, By the Numbers
A feature on Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Games as a commercial enterprise — sponsorship rates, ticket scalping, the Coca-Cola pavilion as its own small city
The Back
Girl Power, Reviewed
The Spice Girls release Spice, marketing themselves under 'Girl Power'