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...Denver home base, the quality of ICG's service depends on the cooperation of US West. Though the new act is designed to encourage the Bells to allow would-be rivals interconnect--in order to qualify for permission to enter the long-distance business--US West seems stubborn about letting its rival come aboard, says Bryan. "They can be slightly cooperative or uncooperative. Just a scintilla of movement either way can make our lives livable or miserable...
...STUBBORN STAPH The bacterium that's responsible for most hospital-related infections may be becoming resistant to antibiotics...
Against Hartford the Crimson showed how poorly it was capable of playing. Ferrucci, who was the Crimson's leading scorer that day with four goals, seemed to be pulling his team along like a stubborn dog on a leash...
...lives of Tung and Lee will continue to intersect as both seek to ensure that Hong Kong survives its historic transition intact. "Martin is so stubborn," Tung says of his rival. Tung prefers a get-along and go-along strategy that will build up trust in Beijing. "It's only in that way that they will keep hands off," says a friend and political ally. Lee thinks that will not work with communists. "C.H. is a good man who may be forced to do evil," he says. So Lee intends to keep confronting China in the law courts. In fact...
...without an adequate way to kill the organism and could eventually lead to an unstoppable wave of deadly infections in hospitals. First discovered in Japan, the new strain showed an "intermediate" level of resistance to the antibiotic vancomycin, which has been used worldwide to fight off Staphylococcus and other stubborn types of bacteria for the past 30 years. Dr. Francisco Sapico, an infectious disease specialist at USC's Rancho Los Amigos Medical Center, told TIME Online the possibility of losing vancomycin as a weapon against Staphylococcus is cause for concern. "It would become very serious, because there are not many...