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...philanthropist’s desire to “prove the existence of a separate human species,” but now, the delicate, minute plates reveal something more. Viewed frontally and in profile, his four slaves exude a mournful yet dignified air. It becomes clear the torment and strain that incarcerated life has wracked on their bodies, but still, their strength is plainly evident in their sullen faces and sunken eyes. Surprisingly, there is nothing of anger or resentment, just a sense of resignation to fate, and this lamentable acceptance of reality simply makes their emotive power that much...
...tends to divide the council in a negative way,” he says. “It tends to strain people’s friendships.” Barkley says he remembers a time when issues such as whether dining hall should serve grapes farmed by migrant workers dominated the council’s docket...
...Whatever the strain this event had on our students, it is no more appropriate to relax our academic standards than it would be for a professor to deliver an ill-prepared lecture,” he said...
...problem is that bacteria share genetic information much more readily than anyone thought. Individual cells--often from different species--routinely exchange tiny loops of DNA called plasmids. They will even pick up snippets of DNA from dead bacteria or viruses. Once a strain of bacteria survives destruction by antibiotics, chances are it will eventually pass on the genes for resistance to other germs. "It's a numbers game," says Dr. Stuart Levy, a Tufts researcher and author of The Antibiotic Paradox. And because they live everywhere and reproduce quickly, bacteria have the upper hand...
...anthrax, and suddenly it was the hottest drug in town. Doctors were besieged by patients demanding prescriptions "just in case," and pharmacies, particularly in New York, Washington and Florida, couldn't keep up. Other antibiotics, including doxycycline and that old standby penicillin, are just as effective against the particular strain that was showing up in tainted letters, and a few weeks later, when the cdc recommended that doctors switch to those, Cipro's days in the spotlight were over...