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...prize parties from the Shenandoah were scurrying about all eight of the doomed vessels. In accord with the Confederates' usual procedures, all crew members and living animals were removed from each ship. Likewise, all useful equipment, gunpowder, or stores were confiscated and taken back to the Shenandoah. Afterward, the parties searched the whaling vessel's holds for any available combustibles, including whale products, pitch, tar, and turpentine. These they spread throughout the vessels. Bulkheads, the upright walls compartmentalizing each vessel were torn down and piled in cabins and forecastles; the bulkheads' destruction at once created fuel and improved draft...
...Julian Hoff, my longtime mentor, told me this would be one of the most indelible experiences of my life. As usual, he was right. I started the half-day process sitting across a table from two examiners, both senior neurosurgeons. Laid out on the tabletop between us were models of a skull, a head and a spine, as well as several laptop computers filled with brain-scan images. After a quick handshake, the fun began...
...radicals, in truth they were teachers and lawyers, farmers and small-town folk, urban reformers of every ilk, crusaders for peace and women's suffrage, champions of the little guy. They were less a movement than a catch basin for civic-minded men and women impatient with politics as usual but a bit frightened of Eugene V. Debs and his Socialist Party. While many Progressives could not see past their pet causes, T.R. managed to bring them together in a big tent held aloft by the idea that the government, which ought to serve the people, had been hijacked...
...difficulties in tracking MRSA is that doctors rarely check for it. The standard test usually takes a couple of days, and hardly any doctors do it anymore because everyone assumes that most skin infections respond to the usual antibiotics. "HMO's aren't going to be paying for you to do a culture on what they consider to be a [common] skin lesion," Bancroft says...
...ubiquity of staph bacteria adds to the problem. The germs are part of the usual microscopic landscape of your outer and inner skin, including the mucus linings of the nose. Most of those bacteria don't cause illness, and in fact their presence is a good thing, since they can crowd out more dangerous pathogens. But every once in a while, the good guys take a beating, and one of the bad guys, like MRSA, takes hold, colonizing the skin...