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...little comments that society makes that are not devastating, but tend to chip away the confidence, leading to a vicious cycle that causes women to turn away from math," she said...
...seems a particularly vicious irony that Kennedy's political opponent is the mirror image of the veteran Senator's former self. Republican Mitt Romney is young, trim and drop-dead handsome. His life mocks Kennedy's controversial past: the Republican is a teetotaler, a never-divorced family man and a self- made millionaire. That should be trouble enough on the campaign trail. But Kennedy faces a far stiffer obstacle: his constituents crave change simply for the sake of change...
...lives up to its calling as international patron saint of democracy. The United States also makes clear that political Islam is not to be confused with its most radical manifestations. That is to say, Islamic fundamentalism ought not conjure up images of the World Trade Center bombing or the vicious anti-Americanism of the current government in Iran...
Researchers suggest instead that we look to the sea for epidemics. The city of Boston pours tons of pollution and sewage into the water, causing change to the ecosystems. Already algae bloom points to a very unbalanced environment. Perhaps some vicious bacteria is breeding in the sewage, waiting to spread infection by a carrier as apparently innocent as a flea...
...medicine's worst nightmares is the development of a drug-resistant strain of severe invasive strep A, the infamous flesh-eating bacteria. What appears to make this variant of strep such a quick and vicious killer is that the bacterium itself is infected with a virus, which spurs the germ to produce especially powerful toxins. (It was severe, invasive strep A that killed Muppeteer Jim Henson in 1990.) If strep A is on the rise, as some believe, it will be dosed with antibiotics, and may well become resistant to some or all of the drugs...