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...populations of drug-resistant bacteria, since the less hardy microbes are wiped out by the drugs. Opponents of the feed practice argue that even with relatively clean handling and packaging conditions, these bacteria could be transferred to meat and poultry products and eventually wind up in the human gastrointestinal tract. There they could pass on their defensive plasmids to resident bacteria in the gut. One strong piece of evidence: people who are often in contact with drug-containing animal feed or raw meat, like workers on farms or in slaughterhouses, have more drug-resistant bacteria in their intestines than...
...office and thinks three or five years down the road." In the 1950s Ludwig began pondering the world's increasing use, and dwindling supply, of pulp and timber. After surveying sites in Venezuela and elsewhere he settled on Brazil, in part because he found an immense tract for the right price. He bought the land in 1967 for less than $1 an acre...
Some people have complained that casting a black Caliban is a racist act and turns the play into a white-supremacist tract. They need to examine the play more carefully. For one thing, King Alonso is on his way home from marrying his daughter to an African king. More important, Caliban is far from the most evil character in the play. It is true that he has tried to ravish Prospero's daughter, but he was not born to reason or to know right from wrong; he is not immoral, but amoral. It is also true that he plans...
...Olympic Village sprouts incongruously from a sparsely populated, 270-acre tract in southwest Moscow. Eighteen apartment slabs, each 16 stories high and sheathed in multicolored squares, will be clustered around three small parks. TIME'S Peter Ainslie toured the construction site last week and came away impressed: "Without a doubt, it's the most elaborate facility ever built to house, feed and entertain Olympic athletes...
...blistering attack. "Louis is a longstanding and experienced KGB agent," Salisbury charges in a 14-page "dissenting introduction," and his creation "is a book of spurious content, dubious logic, flagrant untruth . . . What confronts us is political perversity seldom seen." But because of Louis' position, Salisbury adds, his tract "commands our attention...