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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reason bacteria acquire resistance to several antibiotics is that many drugs are derivative of one another. For example, when bacteria developed an enzyme to chew up penicillin, drug designers retaliated with larger antibiotic molecules that did not fit into the site that serves as that enzyme's "mouth." In short order, says Dr. Mitchell Cohen, an epidemiologist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, "the bacteria responded to the challenge by developing an enzyme with a bigger mouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Attack of The Superbugs | 8/31/1992 | See Source »

...compared with more than $1,000 on a political airlift. Nor were the local news spots edited to 90 seconds a day -- more like 90 minutes. Engelberg's original idea was to steal the settings for Bush's family-values pitch before the President could arrive. The buses fit modest front-yard dimensions. The people flowed easily and eagerly out of the grass roots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Hail to the Prisoner | 8/31/1992 | See Source »

...foolhardy to suggest that the anti-fur-coat folks should now retreat and give thousands of women -- not to say the environment -- a break. It is not crazy, however, to provide the beavers with contraceptives, so Wildlife 2000 has arranged to trap beavers, sort out the females and fit them with Norplant, the birth-control device. It might work, says Montana veterinarian Jay Kirkpatrick, who has used Norplant successfully on skunks. Inasmuch as beavers are such eager workers, it will be interesting to see if they suffer from angst as they try, try, try to have babies and fail, fail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leave It to Beavers | 8/24/1992 | See Source »

...couple that they seem. Each is the closest thing either campaign has to someone with street smarts. Just as Matalin is politically more liberal than Bush, Carville is more conservative than Clinton. Both are up-by-the-bootstraps white ethnics whose rough-cut personalities don't always fit neatly in a business that has been dominated by slick schmoozers. Both love to cook and jog and escape to a mountain hideaway near Front Royal, Va., on weekends. Says Matalin: "We have plenty of things besides politics to argue about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Star-Crossed Lovers | 8/17/1992 | See Source »

BEHAVIOR: Where Do Bisexuals Fit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 8/17/1992 | See Source »

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