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...short: use a little common sense, tough guys. But when it comes to infectious germs, even a 245-lb. bruiser like Gaither believes you can't always outrun them. "You can't worry about it to death," he says. "It's not like you can walk around and put gloves on your hand every 10 seconds. Sometimes, there's just not that much you can do." Except hope that these recent cases are a coincidental hiccup, and not an epidemic that seriously tackles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Slew of Staph Infections Tackles the NFL | 10/25/2008 | See Source »

...voice when he says it, 'Toot,'" says Alice Dewey, a University of Hawaii professor emeritus of anthropology, who is a family friend and was the graduate studies advisor to Obama's mother Stanley Ann Dunham. "They are very close. [His grandmother] has always been a small, slight woman, but tough. She held his nose to the grindstone, but also lavished him with love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Hawaii Trip: Family Comes First | 10/25/2008 | See Source »

...Neither candidate has submitted themselves to tough questioning with follow-up by the national press corps, so we don't really know their ideas or how good they are. We don't know if McCain is really going to tax us for health care, because nobody's been able to ask him. So the press corps could jump on him, and it would jump-start his campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unsolicited Advice for John McCain | 10/25/2008 | See Source »

...imports. Pakistan, in fact, is in danger of defaulting on its substantial foreign debt if it can't get help either from its friends or from the IMF - and the price of such help will be politically unpopular: a stepped up effort against the Taliban and, perhaps, some tough domestic economic reforms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time and Money Running Out for Pakistan | 10/25/2008 | See Source »

...exhibited the same uncontrolled behavior. While he battled hard, Obama remained cool and reserved. For instance, McCain looked rather emotional when describing John Lewis’s racial remarks about his rallies. McCain complained, “That, to me, was so hurtful.” Obama took the tough Reagan-like stance: “I think the American people are less interested in our hurt feelings during the course of the campaign than addressing the issues that matter to them so deeply.” As if to add some credibility to that statement, while barely changing...

Author: By George Hayward | Title: Presidentiality | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

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