Word: using
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...largest ever private donation to fight tuberculosis, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation last week awarded a five-year, $44.7 million grant to a Harvard Medical School program that will use the funds to battle multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in Peru...
...recent years, a bigger problem has begun to loom. Improper use of tuberculosis medications has led to the creation of the MDR-TB strains, which are resistant to cocktails of even four or five drugs. Currently 11 percent of all tuberculosis cases are resistant to at least one drug...
...floor. Gerald Ford (who we would later learn had just suffered a stroke) is about to take his seat. Secret Service agents and red-shirted First Union Center security guards are blocking my way. I use to like the Secret Service, but now I am annoyed...
Other protestors were doctrinaires: the death penalty, poverty, political venality. To draw the cameras to their signs and slogans, they would run crepe paper around traffic lights and street signs at an intersection, forming a quick square into which they would jump and begin the chants they would use until their arrest...
...from the blue-collar cheese steaks this city is famous for. That fact was not lost on then-mayor Ed Rendell, who, when courting convention planners from both parties, took GOP bigwigs to Le Bec-Fin and dragged Dems to a hoagie joint. The proof, to use that worn gastronomical phrase, is in the pudding: The Dems took their party to the left coast, while Republicans cheerfully descended on this most Democratic of cities. Was it the food? What else...