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I won't get tired of hearing that this week," Manning said. "No one's given us much credit and probably still won't. But that's OK. We like it that way." Manning is heading to his first NFC championship game, at Green Bay next Sunday. Manning had a much better day than his brother, Peyton, whose Indianapolis Colts were stunned by the San Diego Chargers. "I know he was watching and rooting for me," said Eli, who was 12-of-18 for 163 yards. Cornerback R.W. McQuarters intercepted a pass into the end zone with 9 seconds left, turning away a last-ditch drive by Romo. It marked his second straight disappointing finish to a playoff game, following his flubbed hold of a short field goal in Seattle last January. "It hurts," said Romo, who was 18-of-36 for 201 yards with a touchdown.
Plight of the Huddled Masses: A Hard Time for Thanksgiving
Gertrude Winter, a char lady in her sixties who works at a government office, will have a turkey after all this Thanksgiving. At one stage yesterday, it seemed a close run thing. As she sat in the hallway of the Bread for the City charity a rumour swept the place that they were out of turkeys. Agitated, another woman said: "The lady says there are no turkeys left, what are we going to do?" In fact the turkeys were already on their way from another warehouse and what might have degenerated into a mini-riot, reverted instead to the good-natured banter of strangers. Thrown together by poverty and the pinched generosity of the United States, they waited to be interviewed to see if they were eligible for a free turkey and a bag of groceries. Mobile soup kitchens are keeping the homeless on the streets fed, but it is the working poor and those with young and old dependants who patiently line up at Bread for the City.
The Wag's Diary
Tracie Martin is Luton Town's longest-serving WAG. For 12 years, team captain husband Dean has kept her in acrylic nails, UGG boots and Juicy Couture. But with the start of the football season looming, there's a new breed of WAGS at LTFC who aren't quite playing by the rules. Standards are slipping and Wagdom is in crisis! To add insult to injury, Tracie's daughter Paskia-Rose is more interested in the offside rule than shopping at Cricket. .
4 more hospitals screening for super-staph
In Europe, the intervention is known as "search and destroy." Search for every source of drug-resistant bacteria coming into a hospital and destroy opportunities for the superbugs to spread.
It's how countries from the Netherlands to England have battled the growing threat posed by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and brought soaring infection rates under control.
Now, Loyola University Health System and three local Veterans Affairs facilities are embracing the tactic. Come November, Loyola will start testing all hospital patients for MRSA and taking aggressive steps to prevent its transmission. Hines VA Hospital near Maywood and the North Chicago and Jesse Brown VA Medical Centers implemented what's known as "universal screening" for MRSA at the end of September.
Cop lab backlog haunts victims
A SEX attacker who almost strangled a young woman in an unprovoked attack is free because of a backlog in DNA testing which could provide vital clues. More than four months after university student Nina Funnell, 23, was threatened with a box cutter and almost raped, vital DNA tests on her clothes and swabs are yet to be done. Ms Funnell has been told by police there is so much evidence from across the state to be tested they simply have too few resources to test items quickly. The delay has left Ms Funnell living in fear, frustrated that a simple DNA test could lead to her attacker being locked up and stop him from striking other women. "If he is a repeat offender there is a good chance he is out there now attacking other women or thinking about attacking another woman, in which case I would have thought it would be a matter of urgency to test the DNA," she said yesterday.
Academic Freedom and Evolution
I love the structure of the debate, as presented here, religion vs. Darwinian evolution. Except that the only theological option that the anti-Darwinists seem to advocate is the literalist Protestant Christian variant. Are they truly open to the inclusion of all theologies’ origin myths in the science classroom and the laboratory or just their belief system of choice? Gadfly on the Wall, at 9:30 am EST on December 10, 2007 .
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