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...when newly antibiotic resistant bacteria have resurrected diseases previously thought to have been eradicated or at least controlled, this is an alarming prospect. Imagine one of those bacteria in your gut happens to be strep or staph or tuberculosis—something nasty, but controllable with standard antibiotics. Now imagine that they pick up a plasmid from a genetically modified piece of corn. What happens? The antibiotics don’t work any more. At this point it might be worth buying some life insurance and making sure your will is in order...
Even Democrats who admire Kerry are worried that he comes across as too calculating--which is why more than a few say they wish he would do something, anything, from his gut. It didn't happen last week, when all six candidates appeared for the first time together, at a dinner in Washington sponsored by NARAL Pro-Choice America. About the best thing that could be said about Kerry's speech on the emotional abortion issue was that it wasn't as flat as North Carolina Senator John Edwards'. The biggest crowd pleasers: Dean, with his bold defense...
...federal Clean Air Act, he took on polluters in the Midwest in 1999, arguing that winds bring their acid rain to New York. Two power companies agreed to pay a total of $2.6 billion to clean up 18 power plants, though the Bush Administration's efforts to gut the act have stalled the cases. Spitzer challenged gun manufacturers who supply retailers involved in illegal sales. Though the case has not yet succeeded, Spitzer used a novel legal tool--the "nuisance law," arguing that such firearm sales created a "harmful condition" that required a change in business practices. Then...
...other end, Providence coach Bob Deraney called the loss gut-wrenching. Soon after the game’s end, he had already watched the game-winning goal on tape. He was left wondering what might have been had the puck bounced a different way off the wall at the start of the Harvard possession that led to the winning goal...
...Gut Check...