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...Guess who?s having the last laugh? The scientists, who together proved that the vast majority of stomach ulcers were caused by bacteria-not stress, spicy food or alcohol-are officially Nobel Laureates. In awarding the prize today, the Nobel committee commented that the pair had fundamentally altered the scientific view of a disease that affects up to five million people in the U.S. each year. Asked how winning the Nobel Prize would affect his future, Warren replied with a West Australian?s typical laconic self-deprecation: "Yeah, we'll have to come to Sweden...
...lived in New Orleans and its suburbs had been bused or airlifted out. But a week after the levees broke, at least 10,000 were believed to be still in the city--some determined to stick it out, others inaccessible to rescuers. Health officials tested and found E. coli bacteria in the floodwaters, raising fears that diarrhea could spread. Fires set off by broken gas mains raged untamed, and hooligans controlled some zones. City officials--stung by criticism of their failures to clear the city before the storm--took no chances this time. On Tuesday, Nagin instructed police...
...medical practice, evolution is not just a theory espoused by a long-dead naturalist. I see evolution at work when bacteria become resistant to antibiotics or when cancer cells grow despite chemotherapeutic regimens. Without Darwin's theory of evolution as a framework, medical science would still be in the days of bloodletting and demons...
...Sichuan, and the high mortality rate and severe symptoms?which include bleeding under the skin in some cases?seem to be entirely new. "I've never before seen an outbreak of this type," says Dr. Thomas Alexander, the retired University of Cambridge veterinary scientist who first identified the bacteria in humans. "It just doesn't sound like Strep." Dr. Marcelo Gottschalk of the University of Montreal, the world's top expert on Strep. suis, says China needs help analyzing the bacteria to see if it has mutated into a more virulent form. But so far, the country hasn't shared...
...that evolution has become an article of faith among scientists. He cites biologist J.B.S. Haldane who, when asked what would disprove evolution, replied, fossil rabbits in the Precambrian era, a period more than 540 million years ago, when life on Earth seems to have consisted largely of bacteria, algae and plankton. "Creationists are fond of saying that there are very few fossils in the Precambrian, but why would there be?" asks Dawkins. "However, if there was a single hippo or rabbit in the Precambrian, that would completely blow evolution out of the water. None have ever been found...