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When Andrew Speaker boarded an Air France flight for Paris last month carrying a form of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, he became a global pariah--both for the lethal bug in his system and for the folly of exposing other people to it. But while Speaker may have been reckless, the blame for the emergence of drug-resistant bugs like the one he is incubating falls partly on the rest of us. For years public-health officials have been raising the alarm about how our overreliance on antibiotics is breeding a generation of superbugs, increasingly resistant to the medicines designed...
...Bantams. Harvard proved it had improved, keeping the match close throughout. The match seesawed back and forth for the entire night. Seniors Siddharth Suchde and Ilan Oren won their matches in the top two positions. However, the competition ultimately rested on the outcome of the match at the seventh flight between sophomore Niko Hrdy and Trinity’s Supreet Singh. The Crimson almost completed the upset, but in the end, Singh bested Hrdy and gave the Bantams the 5-4 win. In its next marquee contest of the season, Harvard met up with Princeton to decide the champion...
Raasuke predicts that the area's integration will only intensify. Many companies, including his own, already treat Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania as a single market. And close investment ties have already bred closer trade and cultural ties. A decade ago, there was just one flight a day between Tallinn and Stockholm. Now there are six. At Swedbank, half the staff is currently based in the Baltic states or Russia. Such connections have helped drive Sweden's own growth and bolstered its ability to compete on a global stage. When New York City-based nasdaq launched a bid to acquire Sweden...
...less than one-third of cases. The good news is that most people infected with the germ won't develop the disease; there have been fewer than 50 cases in the U.S. since 1993. The bad news is that extended contact in an enclosed space--like a long airplane flight--is the perfect petri dish...
...Health, though, is only part of the issue. In La Paz, where one flight of stairs can feel like 10, it's impossible to deny the home-court advantage. Still, high-altitude Bolivian home teams lose just as much as they...