Word: abbott
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...defense. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration considers the quinolones so important, in fact, that when the agency approved their use in animals in 1995, it insisted that their manufacturers establish a network to monitor for signs that drug resistance was spreading to humans. The monitoring programs of Abbott and Bayer, however, seem to have been less effective than Minnesota's, which was the first to notice that the chickens' antibiotics had come home to roost...
...world in which giant scorpion bowls and sinister fortune cookies lurk around every corner. It is a world inhabited by a militant feminist stripper, a Harvard dropout, a closet homosexual, a closet heterosexual, a voluptuous blues singe and a troupe of waiters with names out of an Abbott and Costello routine. It is the world of the Freshman Musical, a world in which ordinary rules of theater and of theater reviewing do not necessarily apply. Creating an original musical entirely from scratch is never an easy matter, and it is probably less so when the show is written by committee...
...world in which giant scorpion bowls and sinister fortune cookies lurk around every corner. It is a world inhabited by a militant feminist stripper, a Harvard dropout, a closet homosexual, a closet heterosexual, a voluptuous blues singe and a troupe of waiters with names out of an Abbott and Costello routine. It is the world of the Freshman Musical, a world in which ordinary rules of theater and of theater reviewing do not necessarily apply. Creating an original musical entirely from scratch is never an easy matter, and it is probably less so when the show is written by committee...
...Margate, N.J., children recycled Christmas trees as a means to stave off beach erosion. They planted castoff trees in a trench along the beach, which trapped wind-blown sand and anchored a new sand dune. "The trees were heavy, and some were bigger than me!" recalls fourth-grader Jim Abbott. When fierce nor'easters rushed across the beach, the dune built by kids and bolstered by balsam firs held up, while nearby dunes washed away...
...have been captured by stories of Jackie Robinson or Satchel Paige, Fernando Valenzuela or Jim Abbott...