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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...
...Trigger-Happy? There's no question that Thailand's southern tip is increasingly awash in guns. The number of legally registered weapons in the three provinces has jumped 10% each year since 2004, and many more are owned illegally. The state readily distributes firearms to everyone from teachers to government officials. In Narathiwat's Tak Bai district, for instance, none of the 56 village chiefs owned a gun before 2004. Now all do. "Guns can't totally protect us against insurgents," says Yoon Yerntorn, chief of Tak Bai's Buddhist Sai Khao village, where five locals have been killed over...
...Thursday the smart money was on a $100 million opening; on Friday the ante was raised to $120 million, and on Saturday they finally got it right. Of course, the $140.7 million is simply another estimate: Summit Pictures' Sunday-morning guess at Sunday evening's take. The real number, released tomorrow afternoon, could be much higher or much lower - all of which underlines the validity of screenwriter William Goldman's dictum that, in Hollywood, "Nobody knows anything." (See portraits of the characters in New Moon...
Brunch has always been something of a social meal, one reserved for lazy weekends - something to do when you have extra time and, more importantly, extra cash. So why at a time when the number of dinners that Americans are eating out is at an all-time low, and the economy has more and more people turning to their kitchens to (gasp!) cook for themselves, is this niche meal on the rise? Brunch traffic was up 8% during the first eight months of this year compared to the same period in 2008, according to market-research firm NPD Group. Brunch...
...director general of police, Vishwa Ranjan. For decades the state had dismissed the Naxal movement's creeping ascendancy over its southern districts and did little to buttress the strength of its security force. This year, the state's sanctioned police force stands at 46,000, more than double the number of officers on the ground in 2005, and all new recruits are being put through the college course in addition to basic training...