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Rumors of a Nobel Prize have been swirling around Barry Marshall and J. Robin Warren as far back as 1997-at least in Western Australia, where the two scientists are local heroes, and where I was once a medical writer for the local newspaper in Perth, my hometown. As a joke, Marshall, a gastroenterologist, and Warren, a now-retired pathologist, had even taken to sharing a beer down by the Swan River in Perth every year when the Nobel for medicine was announced...
...women doing it tend to be shy and retiring. Not so these two. Warren, known for his absolute loyalty to the bolo tie, wasn?t afraid to go out on a limb for an improbable idea. Back in 1979, Warren, who was then working at Royal Perth Hospital, observed a spiral bacteria growing in the stomachs of people with gastritis, or inflammation of the stomach. He became the butt of jokes among his colleagues, who knew-it was right there in all the textbooks-that nothing could grow in the acid environment of the stomach...
...friday, 8 december: Didn't make the 11 in Perth, so had to carry the drinks, like at the Green Valley pub. I got to field when McGrath was off for six overs after tea on the third day. I promised the Australian people no more crudity. It's been ages since I sledged guys so thick. Like Kevin Pietersen. Behind his back, Shane calls him BBC ("Brilliant But Creepy"). I was nervous, but I don't think the boys noticed. "Can't bat, can't bowl," I said to Freddie Flintoff when he was on nought...
...Maybe his response would have been faster in different circumstances, but it seems Bush lacked the motivation in this case, in which the majority of people concerned were poor and black and the prestige attached to such a rescue mission would not be seen as particularly great. Susan Cooper Perth, Australia...
...Maybe his response would have been faster in different circumstances, but it seems Bush lacked the motivation in this case, in which the majority of people concerned were poor and black and the prestige attached to such a rescue mission would not be seen as particularly great. Susan Cooper Perth, Australia As ghastly as the hurricane catastrophe has been, perhaps it is the very wake-up call that the U.S. and President Bush need to make them address the real possibility of devastation caused by global warming and what should be done about it - now. Hally Hardie St. Ives, England...