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...been deluded, I guess. In sixth grade, the boys and girls suddenly stopped wielding invisible cans of "germ spray" and started to dance--arms outstretched and planted tentatively on the other's shoulders--in the multi-purpose room. At that point, I decided it was important to live pink...
Large cities are breeding grounds for novel, antibiotic-resistant strains of old germs and for entirely new kinds of microbes. Not since the bubonic plague has the world encountered anything like the AIDS virus, which has infected at least 10 million people. No one knows exactly where AIDS originated, but it has become an epidemic in the cities of Africa, Europe, Asia, Latin America and the U.S. In addition to its own deadly impact, AIDS fosters the spread of other diseases. The tuberculosis germ, for example, attacks weakened AIDS victims and uses them as a beachhead for invading healthy populations...
Turner sampled the Pancake Extravaganza, whileFonda, the star of numerous exercise videos,virtuously stuck with yogurt, wheat germ andherbal...
There is, thank goodness, one germ from this burgeoning music scene that neither die-hards nor preppies have tarnished: Alice in Chains. Their name implies unmarketable brashness, and the Chains made that implication a reality on their first album, Facelift, and have reincarnated this same as yet unrecognized talent for their second outing, Dirt...
...bacteria develop enzymes capable of destroying the antibiotics and even molecular pumps that expel the drugs from the cell. The most recent example of bacterial resourcefulness came to light only two weeks ago. By deleting a single gene, an English-French research team announced, certain strains of the TB germ have protected themselves from isoniazid, currently the major weapon against this resurgent disease...