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Pediatricians at Johns Hopkins are studying a different bug, the Bb-12 strain of Bifidobacterium, which was discovered by researchers at CHR Hansen Biosystems. Like L-GG, Bb-12 stimulates the immune system. For reasons that are not clear, infants who are breast-fed have large amounts of bifidobacteria in their intestines. They also have fewer intestinal upsets. Dr. Jose Saavedra and colleagues at Hopkins have shown that Bb-12 prevents several types of diarrhea, including that caused by rotavirus, in hospitalized infants as young as four months. It has also been used to cure diarrhea in children...
...manifestation of a new era of cyber-paranoia? This at least was no urban legend of virus-bearing e-mail that will trash your hard drive if you read it: As ZDnet reports, at least 10 sites and thousands of servers and workstations at MCI were crippled by a bug that disables executable files and locks users out of .DOC and .XLF files. And although the origin of the virus remains unknown, the fact that it was timed to propagate during the hours when MCI's tech support is least staffed strongly suggests a deliberate attack. One official grimly characterized...
...Asians are making exactly those pitches right now--in more muted terms, to be sure--to U.S. executives and investors. Still more surprising, some of the prospective buyers are beginning to listen. They include a few who only weeks ago would have replied with some more polite variation of "Bug off! Do you think I'm crazy...
...with a classic is dangerous, so when VW reintroduced the Beetle, it sprayed on the style with a fire hose. The Volks-folks managed to make the car whimsical but not silly, ingenious but not too cutesy, sexy and sporty at the same time. Just as the old VW Bug inspires aging boomers to memories of more carefree days, the new Beetle suggests glad times ahead. Nothing--fenders, headlights, fuel tank--interrupts the curves of this happy hemisphere of color...
...sounds and the overarching silence by which they and I were subsumed. Something momentous was about to happen, or had already happened, 10 million years ago. I could hear the air. Everything became important--the flesh of the leaves, the braided vines, a macaw overhead, the smallest insect. A bug the size of a piece of dust crawled across my hand as I wrote about it crawling across my hand...