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Doctors have long been warned to go easy on antibiotics and sulfa drugs. When used with routine frequency, such germ killers may defeat their own purpose by leading to ever more resistant germs. Now comes worse news: the appearance of drug-resistant bacteria that can foil several antibiotics at once. The disturbing explanation is that certain germs "catch" this power of resistance simply by contact with one another. As a result, some infections of the intestinal and genitourinary tracts are becoming tougher than ever to treat...
...poor and a $10 million Teachers Corps project for impoverished neighborhoods. During a seven-hour, bitterly partisan debate, the Republicans tried to strike out the rent-subsidy funds. But the Democratic leadership had done its work well. The attempt failed narrowly, 198 to 190, with six Republicans helping to foil it. Later the entire bill passed by a comfortable 269-to-122 margin...
...ready to bloom in individual paperboard containers, geraniums can be bought in plastic bedding boxes that look like oversized ice trays. Both the plant and its cube-shaped root cluster can simply be pulled out of the pots, plopped into the ground. Rose bushes arrive in brand-new aluminum foil containers with plastic bottoms; the backyard gardener simply snaps off the plastic bottom, lowers the container into the ground without ever soiling his hands. Because rose roots grow straight down, to all practical purposes, the foil foils them...
...Cook of Leverett, who had won three points in the sabre round, did not show anything in the other two matches, and his house-mate Jim Seubold made three points in the foil. With only Russell gaining points for Leverett in epee, Eliot had their chance to edge into the lead...
...three rounds there were six qualifying places. Thus in the sabre and epee competition, Kirkland and Winthrop tied. Kirkland's four points in the foil brought the team into third place...