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...Lewis, a professor of biology at Northeastern, said that the underlying hypothesis of this paper suggests that the properties of soil bacteria that allow them to grow on antibiotics also allow them to resist antibiotics in more complex environments, like in an organism...
...perhaps the album’s most problematic song (though arguably a success as a musical version of conspicuous consumption). Clocking in at 11 minutes and 11 seconds of monochromatic ambient noise, it soothes like much of the rest of the album, but it’s difficult to resist the fast-forward button after a didactic five minutes leaves listeners with nothing to look forward to beyond six more of the same.“Saturdays=Youth” is a triumph in the way Gonzales probably intended it to be. It’s a fractured, uneven work...
...farmer Charles Pfluger and his wife Helen, residents for nearly 40 years, helped as well and were deeply touched. "When those children went out to play you could hear those peals of laughter..." Charles Pfluger says, his voice choking a little and then trailing off. But Pfluger had to resist picking up a little toddler, afraid it might cause an incident. "There was a little boy about two feet tall with that 'puppy look'," he said. "I still see that kid looking...
...will always be an enemy and you will remain so until the last drop of my blood," Sadr said in a statement responding to the comments by Gates. "If you don't withdraw from our land or set a timetable for withdrawal acceptable to the Iraqi people, we will resist...
...When both the Attorney General and the SFO's Wardle resisted BAE's request for lenience, the Saudis turned up the heat. In 2006, the judgment states, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the former Saudi Ambassador to Washington, warned Jonathan Powell, Tony Blair's then-chief of staff, to shelve the investigation. Failure to do so, the Prince threatened, would weaken intelligence cooperation and wreck a $40 billion deal for BAE to supply Eurofighter Typhoon jets to the Saudis. Soon after government ministers made Wardle aware of the threat, the SFO's boss agreed to drop the case. "The Director...