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...championship. Entering its Ivy League opener at Dartmouth, the Crimson, with a 2-11 non-conference mark, faced the prospect of another disappointing year. The game also brought two more immediate challenges: the two-time defending Ancient Eight champion Big Green, and a stomach bug plaguing its star point guard. But Hallion shook off her illness in Hanover to record a career-high 22 points, including 18 after the break, to will Harvard to a 71-68 victory that started its stunning Ivy League run. After the game, Hallion disregarded her poor health, saying “I knew that...
...born magnate's Barrick Gold has emerged as the world's third largest gold producer. With a pending deal to develop the $20 billion Busang deposit in Indonesia, Barrick may even outstrip South Africa's Anglo American for the No. 1 spot. Yet, says Munk, he is no gold bug. "For a Canadian, natural resources were a good fit," he conceded recently from his corporate headquarters in Toronto. "But you don't get into a business because of personal tastes...
Most vaccines work by exposing the immune system to a weakened or killed virus, which sensitizes the body to the bug and causes it to produce a standing army of antibodies. If a viable virus presents itself later, the antibodies signal immune-system cells, which engulf the invader. AIDS vaccines have never produced a crop of antibodies robust enough to get this defense going...
Unlike severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, which emerged with a deadly energy in 2003 and caught health officials by surprise, MRSA isn't exactly a new bug making its first appearance in human hosts. Since the 1960s, hospitals have been battling the staph pathogen--something to be expected in institutions that are, by definition, gathering places for the sick. What is upsetting about the recent reports is that they are coming from outside the hospital, confirming that drug-resistant strains of the bacteria are finding new homes in the community--particularly among kids...
...heard or read the headlines: that methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is deadlier than AIDS; that the killer bug is alarmingly more widespread than anyone thought; that it's in your kids' locker rooms and at your gym. Stories abound of young high-school athletes becoming infected with MRSA and dying within weeks, and you're starting to worry about whether that nick or scrape you just got could be your last...