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With junior sharpshooter Jim Goffredo sidelined with a staph infection, sophomore forward Brad Unger nailed two trifectas to push the Crimson’s lead to 18 late in the second half, and Harvard coasted to a 61-48 win over Albany on Saturday afternoon at the Recreation and Convention Center...
...prized, a Yale scholar of ancient Greek who roamed Western Europe, Mexico and the Dominican Republic during the 1960s recruiting foreign agents and collecting intelligence on the Soviets. Goss, 65, once told TIME that he had hoped to spend a career at the CIA, but a serious staph infection in 1970 forced him to quit fieldwork, and he left the agency for a new life in Florida that eventually led him to politics and the House of Representatives. Three decades later, the former secret agent is poised to return to the clandestine world, now that President George W. Bush...
DIED. JOEL DEAN, 73, whose fancy SoHo food store, Dean & DeLuca, made epicures of American shoppers; of a staph infection; in New York City. In 1976 he quit a publishing job to open an upscale market with his friend Giorgio DeLuca. It became a destination for food lovers, the flagship of the 19-store chain and a thriving catalog and Web business...
...stroke of very bad luck. Today he thinks it could have been worse. A school-bus driver from Colfax, Wis., Hilson, now 73, underwent heart-bypass surgery in 1994 at Luther Hospital in Eau Claire. At first the procedure seemed to have gone well. But Hilson contracted a severe staph infection. To treat it, doctors "kept cutting back the flesh and bone," he recalls, until his entire sternum was removed, leaving his beating heart visible just under the skin...
...when newly antibiotic resistant bacteria have resurrected diseases previously thought to have been eradicated or at least controlled, this is an alarming prospect. Imagine one of those bacteria in your gut happens to be strep or staph or tuberculosis—something nasty, but controllable with standard antibiotics. Now imagine that they pick up a plasmid from a genetically modified piece of corn. What happens? The antibiotics don’t work any more. At this point it might be worth buying some life insurance and making sure your will is in order...