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Anton Von Leeuwenhoek is famous for scraping the plaque off the exceedingly dirty teeth of the elderly men of Delft. He is still remembered today for his crude attempt at oral hygiene because he was the first person to describe bacteria and a host of other “cavorting...
DIED. ROBERT KIRSCHNER, 61, forensic pathologist who collected evidence from alleged massacre sites in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia to help convict perpetrators of genocide; in Chicago. Kirschner's work took him on dozens of missions on behalf of human-rights organizations and U.N. tribunals. Despite the grisly nature of...
St. Paul Cos., the nation's second largest medical-malpractice insurer, decided that it had had enough. As jury awards climbed, the company found in 2000 that it paid out $1.80 in defense costs for every $1 collected in premiums. The company lost nearly $1 billion in its medical coverage...
It isn't only the wood-chipping gear that exudes testosterone. Just visit the Waste News booth, where salesman David Martin invites attendees to maneuver a radio-controlled trash truck around a scaled-down city street. "We don't care if people want to knock the kids down," he says...
And so it was that support for the jihadist violence targeting U.S. interests on the Arabian peninsula came to be redirected toward Israel. After the Oslo peace accords broke down and the second intifadeh led to spiraling violence beginning in September 2000, colossal frustration began to build in the occupied...