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...infectious disease specialist at the Duke University Medical Center, who consults for an NFL team and several college programs. "Any time you break that barrier, it becomes a portal through which bacteria can gain access." Staph prevention is pretty low-tech. "You know, this is pretty simple," Sexton says. "Hand washing remains the primary defense against the transmissions of most organisms, including staph. Most people don't think of a locker room as a place where hand hygiene is important, but locker rooms are also mini-emergency rooms...
...program is aimed at restaurant patrons. Joe Silva, the proprietor of Ambassador Brattle Cab, said that on Oct. 31, restaurants will hand out cards with the SafeRide phone number...
...Some American officials see the hand of Iran at work in the deadlock: U.S. commander General Ray Odierno last Sunday suggested that Tehran had tried to bribe Iraqi leaders in order to deal a setback to the U.S. - charges the Iraqis angrily reject. Iran certainly opposes any agreement extending the U.S. military presence on its doorstep, and the dominant political parties in the U.S.-backed government are, in fact, the Iraqi factions closest to Iran. More important, however, may be the fact that the U.S. invasion has led to Iraq being turned into a democracy, where the will...
...Sarah Palin is qualified to be president. While the debate didn’t devolve into character attacks, there was plenty of disagreement among participants. Dasher, an Obama supporter, and Cavedon, a McCain fan, disagreed on almost every issue. “I think Matt’s hand went up the moment Grant started talking,” Lomazoff said at one point. Later in the debate, Cavedon prefaced one of his responses with, “I wholeheartedly agree with Grant for one of the first times.” Lomazoff said there...
...more volatile of the two vice-presidential candidates, with 40 percent saying that the choice made them less likely to support the Republican ticket. Twenty-five percent said that McCain’s choice of Palin made them more likely to vote for the Arizona senator. On the other hand, 60 percent of those surveyed said that Obama’s choice of Joe Biden made no difference in their voting behavior...