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...complicating any White House plans for military disengagement. And Iraqi political observers warn that the longer they are poorly ruled by ?small, ordinary men,? the more their fellow countrymen will long for the return of a Saddam-like tough guy. When statesmen are hard to find, strongmen tend to thrive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bloodied Iraq Cries Out for Leadership | 1/4/2006 | See Source »

...they had a natural resistance to the chemical. It's the same phenomenon that breeds pesticide-resistant insects on farms. What's more, since many antibiotics wipe out numerous species of bacteria at once, the drugs inadvertently create a nice, clear field in which those that do survive can thrive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stomach Bug Proves Tough to Kill | 12/30/2005 | See Source »

...margin, it might allow us to be a little bit more calibrated in finding people who would excel and thrive at BCG,” said King. But he added, “We are comfortable making decisions on people in the absence of grades...

Author: By Alexander H. Greeley and Daniel J. T. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: News Analysis: MBA Students Give New Policy Poor Marks | 12/15/2005 | See Source »

...Such changes are grounds for students to be allowed to apply as transfer students for the spring semester,” Nikolich said. “Tulane isn’t the same school we applied to.” But McClendon said she thinks students will still thrive at Tulane. “As difficult as this situation has been, there have been a few positive things that came out of it—one of those being that I could focus just about anywhere,” she wrote. “It’s just...

Author: By Sharlene Brown | Title: Tulane Cutbacks Irk Displaced Students | 12/13/2005 | See Source »

...type of powdery ceramic called zeolite. Each grain of zeolite is riddled with submicroscopic tunnels that are stuffed with silver ions. It releases the ions only in exchange for others--say, sodium ions in a salty drop of sweat. So ion-rich liquids, in which bugs often thrive, activate AgION's microbicide. "The ceramic delivers enough silver to be effective," says AgION CTO Jeffrey Trogolo, "but not so much that it loses effect over its lifetime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jeffrey Trogolo: Hygiene's Silver Bullet | 12/4/2005 | See Source »

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