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Rifamycins, the main drugs currently used to treat tuberculosis, attack the same RNA polymerase target, but at a different site. That means the old drugs and the new drugs "should not have cross-resistance," says Ma. Any new drugs will work against bacteria that have developed resistance to current drugs, but won't interfere with the way the current drugs work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Class of Antibiotics Could Offer Hope Against TB | 10/17/2008 | See Source »

...wait each morning for their daily conversations. But when their children step in, the two find that their lives and their friendship are not entirely under their control. In Mr. Shi’s case, his daughter has run out of tolerance and booked him a ticket for a cross-country bus tour without his counsel or consent. In Madam’s case, her children hastily ship her off to a nursing home. In each instance, the central conflict is ageism, not racism. Half of the film is taken up by Mr. Shi trying to talk to his daughter...

Author: By Rachel S. Park, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: "A Thousand Years of Good Prayers" | 10/17/2008 | See Source »

When Xu took the class, it was tiny, with only 12 students enrolled. This year, there are at least 60 undergraduates, a trend that Kenen and Kuriyama hope will continue. “It’s a really great example of a cross disciplinary class,” said Kenen. “It doesn’t fit neatly into one disciplinary framework and thus it’s the kind of thing that might not have worked well in the Core.” She said that the General Education program has been criticized for recycling Core...

Author: By Alissa M D'gama, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gen Ed Course Swaps Podcasts for Papers | 10/17/2008 | See Source »

...Prediction: Holy Cross 28, Dartmouth...

Author: By Loren Amor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: AROUND THE IVIES: Harvard Looks to Stay on Track | 10/16/2008 | See Source »

...long as man has worshipped a god, there have been forgers, crafty hucksters who seize on a believer's desire to possess material proof of the divine. In Jerusalem, it is a bountiful trade. The old adage is that if all the splinters of the True Cross were gathered from across Christendom, it would yield a wooden crucifix the size of a Manhattan skyscraper. Even back in the Middle Ages, pilgrims visiting Jerusalem told of hawkers who sold counterfeit bones and relics of saints...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fraudulent Relics and the Brother of Jesus | 10/16/2008 | See Source »

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