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...Crofton, along with a team of doctors at London's Brompton Hospital, who finally answered the question in 1950. In a 15-month trial involving 107 patients, the physicians showed that streptomycin curbed the number of deaths from TB. That success was short-lived: the TB bacilli quickly became resistant to the drug, blossoming into raging infections. Crofton, however, had the insight to combine streptomycin with another new antibiotic--a formula that was to become the blueprint for combination therapy. That approach still forms the cornerstone of TB treatment and served as the inspiration for similar multipronged attacks on serious...
...graduated from The University of Detroit Jesuit High School, the prep school you profiled, one month before the apocalyptic riots of 1967 [Nov. 9]. I am most proud of the fact that U of D chose to stay in Detroit and not abandon it as the other Catholic schools did. My class continues to contribute to our namesake city in many ways. We have purchased two bricks on the world-class Detroit RiverWalk promenade, the only school that has done so. A few years ago, I moved back to downtown Detroit after retiring from the Los Angeles Police Department...
Companies are asking, cajoling, even paying people to ditch paper--and it's working. Two years ago, 13% of us got credit-card statements online only; today, 24% do. But as we stop holding that information in our hands once a month in favor of glancing at account balances on our computers or cell phones moments before we buy, could we be losing the big picture of where all the money goes...
...story. "The reality of what you're spending isn't nearly as strong," says Naomi Baron, a linguistics professor at American University who studies the impact of technology. That's especially true for those of us who sign up to have our bills--cell phone, cable--automatically debited each month from our bank accounts...
...consumer spending. From this standpoint, the outlook for stocks is even more promising. Companies have rigorously cut costs and positioned themselves for a rapid rise in earnings once top-line growth resumes. Annualized productivity growth in the second and third quarters of 2009 averaged 8.2%, the highest six-month average in 40 years and unprecedented for an economy just emerging from a severe recession. Indeed, third-quarter profits, now being reported, are running well ahead of estimates...