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Bacon therapy to the rescue New twist on an old remedy gets the larvae out
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In the age of costly, high-tech medicine, a story of how a few
strips of ordinary bacon came to the doctors' rescue is sure to warm
the hearts of many -- even if it turns their stomachs.
When antibiotics failed, it was bacon from the Massachusetts
General Hospital cafeteria that succeeded in treating a 45-year-old
Wayland man who returned from Costa Rica last winter suffering from
painful bites on the back of his neck.
They were not simply the fang-marks of an insect, the patient
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Bangor-Brewer football rivalry history, including game scores
Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
; BANGOR-BREWER HISTORY All-time series Bangor leads 71-20-8 Total points Bangor 1,743; Brewer 623 Average points Bangor 17.60; Brewer 6.34 Shutouts Bangor 40 Brewer 16 Largest win margin Bangor 50-0; Brewer 38-2 Scores from the first 99 Bangor-Brewer football games. The series resumes tonight at 7
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Fitzpatrick lifts Brewer past Bangor Junior scores three goals
Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
; BREWER - There were almost too many highlights to pick just one as THE highlight. There was a hat trick from one player, a solid goaltending performance from another, an offensive onslaught that produced a 4- 0 lead, and a defensive effort which killed nine power plays - one of which was a
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John Brewer: Daniel Snowman meets the historian of 18th-century British art, culture, commerce, consumption--and a sensational murder.(Today's History)
History Today
; 'IN THE EARLY 1960s I left my father for my uncle.' Not literally, of course. What John Brewer means is that when he was a teenager, he deserted what he regarded as the ultra-bourgeois conservatism of his surgeon father for the more free-flowing Marxism of Uncle Leslie, a radical journalist and bon
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Hollywood cold warrior. (Scan).(Roy Brewer)
The American Enterprise
; Roy Brewer is still the toughest anti-communist in Hollywood. During the 1940s and '50s, he and Ronald Reagan worked together to stop the Communist Party insurgency in the film capital, Reagan from his posts at the Screen Actors Guild, and Brewer as the labor chief who ran the Hollywood office of
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Helping Homewood's rebirth: Brewer's Coliseum investment poised to bring in community events
New Pittsburgh Courier
; Helping Homewood's rebirth: Brewer's Coliseum investment poised to bring in community events by Sonya M. Toler Courier Staff Writer As a young boy, John Brewer would run through a series of buildings between North Lang and Brushton avenues in Homewood, yelling obscenities to the men at work. Never
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Witches tame 'Dogs Fitzpatrick goal sparks Brewer
Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
; BREWER - It's not often one particular play can be THE most critical one in a hockey game with a final score of 9-2. Usually, there is no one key play. It's the overall collective team effort that's the key. While the overall effort by Brewer High School was critical in Saturday night's 9-2 victory
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Shooting helped Sooners' Brewer turn life around.(Sports)(Ncaa Tournament)
The Washington Times
; Corey Brewer insists he was merely a peacemaker. Brewer, then 15, says he was trying to mediate an altercation that had nothing to do with him on a West Memphis, Ark., street in 1990. The next thing Brewer saw was the barrel of a shotgun pointing in his face. Brewer ran, the shotgun roared and
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Brewer has big night in lopsided victory
Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
; Utah Jazz guard Ronnie Brewer tied his career highs in both points (21), and rebounds (6) by the end of the third quarter in 32 minutes of play, and he ended Thursday night's game like that, never having to go back in as the Jazz ran away from the very short- handed Phoenix Suns 108-86. Brewer,
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Imperiled: The Historic J. Mason Brewer Home.(Brief Article)
American Visions
; African-American folklorist J. Mason Brewer (1896-1975) maintained, If we do not respect our past, the future will not respect us. From the late 1920s to the 1960s, Brewer traveled throughout Texas and the South, collecting the folk wisdom of former slaves and the first generations born after
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Tulsa World All-Metro Girls Basketball Player of the Year: Star thinks team first: Brewer reveals potential in leading Sapulpa to championship.
Tulsa World (Tulsa, OK)
; ... inside or from the 3-point line when needed. Copyright (c) 2007, Tulsa World, Okla. Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Business News. For reprints, email tmsreprints@permissionsgroup.com, call 800-374-7985 or 847-635-6550, send a fax to 847-635-6968, or write ...
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