Those who have come into Formula One without experiencing cars devoid of ELECTRONIC AIDS will find it tough. To CONTROL 800 horse POWER relying just on arm muscles and foot sensitivity can turn out to be a DANGEROUS exercise.

The fashion industry is often charged with having kept its blinders on as one Seventh Avenue company after ANOTHER lost employees to AIDS. Consumers, it was FEARED, would shun the racks of DESIGNERS whose NAMES were associated with the disease. And to stand up against AIDS would, in many MINDS, confirm the business's stereotypical image.

We're still leaderless. We still don't have strong ORGANIZATIONS that are FIGHTING for us; there isn't a NATIONAL AIDS organization out there worth squat in my opinion.

As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are HUMAN, we get plagues. They COME ALONG every so often, kill off TWO thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease.

HIV AIDS is a DISEASE with stigma. And we have LEARNED with experience, not just with HIV AIDS but with other diseases, countries for many REASONS are sometimes hesitant to admit they have a PROBLEM.

I think these last 10 years have seen just a huge shift in the psyche of this COUNTRY as regards gay people. I think AIDS had a lot to do with it. So many FAMILIES who really believed they'd 'never met one' were suddenly confronted with their sons BECOMING ill, and friends of sons. I think that BROUGHT a lot of it into the open.

Young WOMEN who come to Rise EVERY weekend range from AGES 15-19 years if they're in school and 19-24 years if they're out of school. These empowered young women talk about protecting themselves, their friends and communities and how they can educate people to help break the stigma surrounding AIDS.

We STARTED the AIDS VIRUS. We are only able to maintain our level of living by MAKING sure that THIRD World people live in grinding poverty.

We have COMMON ENEMIES TODAY. It's called childhood POVERTY. It's called cancer. It's called AIDS. It's called Parkinson's. It's called Muscular Dystrophy.

My MOTHER's brother became the undersecretary of the interior for Nixon, which did cause a little drama in my family because I was going to RIOTS and EVERYTHING, but he TURNED out great and gave us a nice CHEQUE for an AIDS benefit we had for the 'Serial Mom' premiere.

If you want to lose weight, you have to be obsessed with it. You can't depend upon your dietician, your trainer or various health aids that you have. You have to be organised. And BELIEVE me, it isn't that difficult. The FIRST 10 days are TERRIBLE because you have to BREAK the lifelong habits that you have MADE.

My own CHILD, one of them, DIED of AIDS. A BRILLIANT BOY.

I FIGHT AIDS because it's a killer disease, DESTROYS the human RACE in all fields.