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Give credit to Dan Clemente and the rest of the Crimson role players, who even had to play through a part of the exam period to extend the mythical streak...
...this reason, it is not enough to come up with new drugs; it is also imperative for us to try our utmost to extend their useful lifetime. This means we must stop misusing them. Consider the case of penicillin. For decades, it has been prescribed by many physicians for every sniffle and sneeze, even when the source of the problem was a virus. Antibiotics have been recklessly prescribed for ear and even sinus infections, many of which, as Mayo Clinic researchers recently noted, are not due to bacteria at all but to the immune system's response to fungal infections...
...venom of the giant Israeli scorpion, a 5-in.-long species known as the "death stalker," may offer hope for the 25,000 Americans each year who have glioma, an incurable, rapidly spreading form of brain cancer. Surgery provides only a temporary respite, and the few experimental therapies extend a patient's life span only weeks...
...Last week New York's mayor, Rudolph Giuliani, proposed doing just that, calling on the city to add a sixth day of school for nearly 84,000 struggling students. California's Governor Gray Davis made a similar move last month when he asked his state to extend its school year by 30 days to give 1 million middle schoolers an extra six weeks of class to help pull up sagging test scores. On the local level, schools across the country are extending the hours students spend in their clutches far beyond the typical seven-hour school...
...previous series set him to thinking and got him listening. The rest of us can hear Ellington play The Single Petal of a Rose or Parker lay into Cherokee and be stirred by mute wonder. Burns doesn't have to go the mute route. He gets to extend and explore all those feelings, amplify them and put them all onto what may be the longest documentary PBS, or any other network, has ever shown. Lucky him. Lucky...