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...Oklahoma City bombing. In the first of a series of videoconferences hooking up victims' families--one group in New York, the other in Oklahoma--a pained Gardner asked, "Did any of you experience anything similar?" Images on the screen showed the Midwesterners look at each other and shrug...
Columbia had also just come off a big upset win against Penn the weekend before, while Harvard had to shrug off a loss to Yale at home. However, several players on both teams were battling the flu, and Columbia senior guard Derrick Mayo of the Lions was out with a broken foot...
...meat could park you on the toilet for the next few days. And if you're sick enough to need medical treatment, you might be out of luck. Chicken Cipro is so closely related to human Cipro that any germ that has become resistant to the animal drug can shrug off the human one just as easily. Before 1996, when enrofloxacin was approved in the U.S. for use in poultry, the number of Campylobacter infections in people that were resistant to Cipro and its chemical cousins was negligible. By 1999, it had jumped to 18%--a clear sign, many researchers...
None of this means that others can simply shrug their shoulders. The Bush Administration's attitude toward the new Argentine government of President Eduardo Duhalde, says a senior State Department official, is "We'll have to wait and see." But Argentina bears close attention. For one thing, its very governability is at stake. Before Christmas, riots provoked by cuts in social spending and limits on bank withdrawals brought down the government of President Fernando de la Rua and left 28 dead. Argentina then engaged in the politics of a comic opera, with three men holding the title of head...
...then concluded with a shrug and the two words that best described the night: “It happens...