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...chance that Pakistani scientists are helping al-Qaeda build or develop a nuclear weapon, we have to treat it as a certainty in terms of our response. It's not about our analysis ... It's about our response." Suskind writes, "So, now spoken, it stood: a standard of action that would frame events and responses from the Administration for years to come." (See what would happen to the accused 9/11 plotters...
...alone." There are no enforced study periods. Boys are expected to manage their own busy lives. They live in houses with about 50 others, each with his own bedroom, overseen by a senior teacher in residence, perhaps with his own family; this housemaster, whose standard term is 13 years, keeps a close eye on his charges. The reports he writes to a boy's parents are often gems of shrewd character dissection. The ethos is intimate, reinforced by a compulsory daily meeting of all teachers, who assemble in their gowns to hear a few announcements and then rapidly transact business...
...difficulties in tracking MRSA is that doctors rarely check for it. The standard test usually takes a couple of days, and hardly any doctors do it anymore because everyone assumes that most skin infections respond to the usual antibiotics. "HMO's aren't going to be paying for you to do a culture on what they consider to be a [common] skin lesion," Bancroft says...
...that's the problem. Doctors have grown used to prescribing antibiotics like oxacillin or cephalexin in that situation. It's not clear if that long-standing habit helped the bugs grow resistant in the first place. But what is abundantly clear is that those standard treatments are no longer effective...
Daniel Radford, who served as executive secretary of the Cincinnati AFL-CIO Labor Council from 1984 to 2005, laments that the standard of living for workers in his hometown has failed to keep pace with that of similar workers in Pittsburgh. "They've got high union density, politicians in their pocket and strong community support," says Radford. "But Cincinnati is completely different. It's a tough town for workers...