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That's the bad news. The good news is that help appears to be on the way, and with a little luck it might just arrive in time. For after years of paying scant attention to infectious diseases, pharmaceutical companies have begun to comb through the vast chemical libraries assembled over the past decade in search of new antimicrobial agents. The effort is starting to pay off. Since September 1999, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved two new antibiotics that target both the enterococci and staphylococci. One--linezolid--seems particularly promising; it represents the first new class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Antibiotics Crisis | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

...them got to do a pair of numbers to plug their latest projects. George, though, should have stuck to laughing at Morgan and Kershaw's stories - his couple of songs were the worst performances by him I have ever seen, including a pitiful rendition of "You Comb Her Hair," which is one of my favorite Jones tunes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: George's Gems | 1/5/2001 | See Source »

...HEADBLADE A fashionably shaved head is either the ultimate in minimalist dandyism or the 21st century version of the comb-over. HeadBlade's power razor has a form as curvy and clean as Patrick Stewart's pate. Nestle it in your palm and "comb" yourself bald. It's shear elegance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design | 12/18/2000 | See Source »

...Bush team's popular argument is an appeal to reason. It's, Look, nothing's perfect, rules are rules, and we don't have time to go through this thing with a fine-tooth comb. Life's unfair; get used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law Doesn't Have All the Answers | 12/1/2000 | See Source »

...look odd (Baker's choice) or cute (Grazer's), and debate raged over what shade of green the Grinch should be. Because Seuss's own illustrations in his book were too austere for a splashy holiday movie (his Whos lived in thatched huts), production designer Michael Corenblith had to comb through the entire Seuss canon to find recurring shapes and motifs on which to base the film's swirling, elaborate sets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seuss On The Loose | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

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