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...even though he'll have five shows on television, the new Ally won't have any new material. In a move never attempted by network television, Fox is going to "repurpose" previously aired episodes of Ally McBeal. Kelley will cut them down to half an hour centered on the comedy storylines and run them as a new, primetime series. He got the idea a month ago, when he was struggling to get his popular drama into the syndication market, where sitcoms do much better. "I have to admit, it's probably the first time in my life I've ever...
...that the link has been established, will the FDA cut off the supply of quinolones to animals? Not likely--or at least not right away. Although the FDA is currently forming a plan for pulling antibiotics off farms and ranches when human resistance develops, the agency has yet to establish how much resistance is too much. It may be months before such thresholds are set. Meanwhile, the best advice to consumers is to wash knives, cutting boards and hands after preparing chicken and insist that it be cooked thoroughly, especially when traveling abroad...
COLD FRONT This may seem out of season, but researchers are getting closer--just a little--to curing the common cold. An experimental remedy called tremacamra seems to cut the severity of cold symptoms in half, with no bothersome side effects. When sprayed in the nose six times a day, tremacamra blocks the site where cold viruses latch onto cells. Don't toss the tissues yet. Tremacamra was tested on only one cold virus; there are hundreds more out there...
Majmudar and Blake came out hot, taking an early two-break lead in the first set. With the score standing at 4-1, the Harvard pair had BYU on the ropes, leading 15-40 with the Cougars serving. BYU battled back, however, to take the game to cut the Crimson's lead...
Direct service provision such as tutoring prisoners or sheltering battered women is inherently a band-aid solution applied after the cut has already been made. Political involvement, on the other hand, attacks the system with legislation that keeps men out of prisons and women out of shelters to begin with. Is not the potential for change much greater in the political sphere...