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Could the antibiotic dam that has kept bacteriological infections at bay for half a century soon be overwhelmed by a tidal wave of super-germs? That's the concern after the discovery of what could be the first crack in that dam - one probably caused by the overuse of the wonder drug. According to figures released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control, more than 200 people in Minnesota and North Dakota have become ill - and four have died - after contracting a lethal strain of the staph germ known as staphylococcus aureus. Most disturbingly, the mutated germ apparently came...
...70th homer ball last season fetched $3 million. The famous Barry Halper collection, which includes Ty Cobb's dentures and a lock of Babe Ruth's hair, will rake in an estimated $45 million at auction next month. Baseball memorabilia has never been more dear, owing to a tidal wave of enthusiasm for the sport that stems in large part from last year's Sammy and Mark show--airing again this year...
...exactly 3:45 p.m.--the moment of the book's eagerly awaited release, timed to the end of the school day--"there was a pause," says Tara Stephenson, head of children's sales and marketing at Blackwell's. "Then once the first one was sold, it was an absolute tidal wave...
...then came the rousing finale: his release and hero's return to Moscow in 1986; his relentless prodding of Mikhail Gorbachev to pursue democratization; and his election to the Congress of People's Deputies, the Soviet Union's first democratically chosen body. At the time of his death, a tidal wave of democracy that he had helped create was about to engulf the communist world...
...Direct Response Marketing, a tiny pharmaceutical firm in the British Channel Islands that trades in trendy pills at the website lifestyledrugs.com To his inventory of Viagra (for impotence), Propecia (for balding) and Zyban (to quit smoking), owner Tom O'Brien last week added the much hyped Xenical. Result: a tidal wave of U.S. Web surfers that overwhelmed his staff of four. "We're averaging about 60 to 70 orders an hour," O'Brien reports. "It's wiped...