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Serendipity intervenes: in the London summer of 1928, an open window in a hospital lab lets in a spore that settles on a staphylococcus-culture dish left unwashed. A mold grows and contaminates the staphylococcus. The lab user returns. Because he's bacteriologist Alexander Fleming, and because his lab has not been cleaned, penicillin is discovered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inventors & Inventions | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

...discover a carton of penicillin, Microsphere is the nontoxic microbial biocide for you. Packaged in perishables and clothing containers as a fine powder, Microsphere is inactive until humidity hits. Then, like a chemistry teacher's long-aborning dream, it turns into a gas that safely fights off bacteria and mold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Will They Think Of Next? | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

Though Bush claimed to have disdain for "efforts to mold public opinion," his advisers, like Gore's, were obsessed with them. Rove and his team carefully weighed the question of how often to bring their man in front of the cameras. Tuesday and Wednesday they talked about herding the press corps to the ranch to show off Bush's good spirits. By Thursday they decided that things were going so well that the candidate didn't need to get in the way of the news. "The news in Florida was so good," an aide says, "we'd let it speak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election 2000: Prime-Time Battle | 11/27/2000 | See Source »

...outcome of this election will not be the result of deals or efforts to mold public opinion," Bush finished. "The outcome of this election will be determined by the votes and by the law." Especially, it seems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gore's Gambit, Bush's Brush-Off | 11/15/2000 | See Source »

...outcome of this election will not be the result of deals or efforts to mold public opinion," Bush finished. "The outcome of this election will be determined by the votes and by the law." Especially, it seems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gore's Gambit, Bush's Brush-Off | 11/14/2000 | See Source »

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