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Sophomore second baseman Faiz Shakir, who entered the day Friday with just one hit in his last 19 at-bats, did not appear in the starting lineup in either of the two games against Brown. In his place, Walsh gave San Salvador the nod at second...
...Greater London Council - and so irritated Margaret Thatcher that she abolished the institution to get rid of him - won almost three quarters of the vote in the Labor party's primary, Blair fixed the selection process to ensure that his pick, former education secretary Frank Dobson, would get the nod. But that so enraged London Labor voters that they've flocked overwhelmingly to Livingstone's independent campaign. Going into Thursday's vote, Livingstone is the runaway favorite with some 49 percent in the polls, followed by Conservative party candidate Steven Norris with 16 percent and Blair's man, Dobson...
SUPER DRUG The FDA has okayed Zyvox, the first entirely new type of antibiotic in 35 years. With microbes becoming ever more resistant to antibiotics--including the drug of last resort, vancomycin--the FDA's nod comes just in time: Zyvox is approved for staph bacteria, pneumonia and other serious infections. Now if only docs won't overprescribe it, lest the bugs develop resistance to it as well...
...politician. After two half-hearted campaigns for President, he is running hard. Why? The big money in politics, he says, is stymieing the process. "We cannot get through today what we remotely got through in the '60s and '70s," Nader declares. He'll almost certainly get the Green Party nod. His strongest rival is Jello Biafra, once lead singer of the Dead Kennedys...
Until they get the nod, the Mars partisans have to find ways to keep busy. Research teams from NASA and the Mars Society (a private advocacy group) are conducting expeditions to Devon Island in the Canadian Arctic--a place about as similar to the freeze-dried Martian wasteland as you're likely to find anywhere on Earth--to practice survival skills and exploration techniques. Teams at the Johnson Space Center are refining their mission scenarios and crunching their numbers to keep the costs as low as possible. "For now," says Zubrin, "the only thing between us and Mars...