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Reason: British health inspectors had detected bacterial contamination at Chiron's plant in Liverpool, England, and shuttered the facility. Grumpy lines formed at clinics across the U.S., and angry investors pounded the stock, while profits sank. As if that weren't bad enough, Chiron closed another plant in Germany last July for similar reasons. That closing didn't affect the U.S. vaccine supply, but it didn't exactly reassure investors...
...This article contains a complex diagram -- Please see hardcopy of magazine or PDF.] Bowling has come a long way since Edward III of England banned the sport in 1366 because it was distracting his soldiers from archery practice. Bowling dates back at least to the Pharaohs, although for the first few thousand years, the game remained pretty much unchanged. You rolled a ball made of stone or wood or rubber at a bunch of pins and hoped for the best...
...take a guy from Brooklyn, N.Y., to make a good film about class in England? I think so. We're so neurotic about class in England that I don't think we've got the distance to make perceptive movies about it. It's taken the foreign eyes of these great directors like Woody and Robert Altman with Gosford Park and Ang Lee with Sense and Sensibility...
...England Journal of Medicine recently published a paper in which investigators surveyed 187 cases of C. diff at eight health care facilities in Georgia, Illinois, Maine, New Jersey, Oregon and Pennsylvania. More than half of the cases were caused by the new, more dangerous strain. The CDC conducted a survey of its own, profiling 33 recent cases in four states. Twenty-three of the people had never been hospitalized and the other 10 were women who had had only brief hospital stays to deliver babies-suggesting that the new strain is ranging freer than any C. diff has before...
DIED. RODNEY WHITAKER, 74, best-selling author known to millions internationally as Trevanian, one of several of his pen names; of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; in England's West Country. His thrillers, notably The Eiger Sanction, which became a 1975 film starring Clint Eastwood, were translated into more than a dozen languages and prompted comparisons to such critically esteemed storytellers as Edgar Allan Poe and Chaucer...