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...creating increasingly resistant germs. Pharmaceutical companies are racing to create new antibiotics that can replace vancomycin as the drug of last recourse. The leading candidate: Synercid, an experimental drug being developed by Rhone-Poulenc Rorer. Tests show that it should defeat even vancomycin-resistant staphylococci--at least until a tougher strain of bacteria evolves...
Fraud fighters offer this faint cheer: the baby boomers now entering their 50s are more skeptical than their parents. So maybe when they retire, fraud against the elderly will at last become tougher to perpetrate. Maybe...
...Lovely, is as easy to read as the funny papers. He loves the mouthy Maureen (Penn's own wife Robin Wright Penn) and will do anything to keep her or get her back. Penn, though, is a more challenging read: Studs Lonigan, say, rewritten by Brando's tougher kid brother...
NMFS stands by its numbers, however, and is considering even tougher restrictions, such as limiting the number of shark-fishing permits and setting minimum size requirements for each species. Another option, which requires cooperation from individual states but is enthusiastically supported by environmental groups, is to close critical inshore pupping and nursery grounds...
...Marines relish being different from the other three services--tougher and cheaper, Leathernecks like to say--and that attitude is reflected in their boot camp. While the other branches have relaxed their training, last year the corps stretched boot camp from 11 weeks to 12. "This is not making things easier," says General Charles Krulak, the Marine Commandant. "This is making things tougher--physically, mentally and morally." Unlike the other branches, the Marines have also refused to mix men and women in basic training, which angers some who believe that it shortchanges women. Each sex trains the same...