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...miles across town, the outlook is far gloomier. In the mainly Sunni, middle-class neighborhood of Saidiyah, residents question not only what the election means but also whether it should take place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Iraq Rule Itself? | 1/23/2005 | See Source »

...work is a “warts and all” biography of the esteemed poet. “My initial opinion was that Cummings was a happy-go-lucky, celebratory poet,” Sawyer-Lauçanno said, “but his private writing was far gloomier...

Author: By Eric L. Fritz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Key To Cummings Bio | 10/29/2004 | See Source »

...devaluation. Japanese youth don't work up a proper appetite, they get kobarabeta (a little peckish). The good jobs are disappearing, banks teetering, the population aging, and more and more people in their 20s are forced to live with their folks. It's a wonder the slang isn't gloomier. Nonetheless, in today's Japan, "kinda" is as good as it gets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 4/1/2002 | See Source »

Since water is key to agriculture, that could mean a gloomier forecast for continued rises in farming output, though Rogers said he did not necessarily dispute Swaminathan's outlook...

Author: By Andrew S. Holbrook, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Genetically-Modified Foods Fill Developing World Silos | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

Until recently, the outlook for patients with drug-resistant TB could not have been gloomier. The last major anti-TB drug, rifampin, was approved more than a quarter-century ago. In the interim, the TB bacillus has managed to develop resistance to the cocktail of drugs physicians have long used to treat it, including that old standby streptomycin. New drugs, with different mechanisms of action, would be a great help, particularly if they shortened the present six months' time required for treatment. The linezolid family, for example, appears to hold some promise, as does a compound the Seattle-based PathoGenesis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Antibiotics Crisis | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

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