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The frequency of acid-fast bacilli (AFB) smear in culture-positive MTB and MAC respiratory infection is listed in Table 5. Multiple episodes of pulmonary mycobacterial infections were diagnosed in 11 patients during the 3-year study: 3 episodes of pulmonary tuberculosis in 1 patient and 2 episodes in 3 patients; 5 episodes of pulmonary MAC in 2 patients, 3 in 1 patient, and 2 in 3 patients; and 2 episodes of pulmonary M kansasii in 1 patient.
Dawkins reminds us that natural selection produces such creatures through a series of incremental steps that "smear out" their improbability over long periods of time.
In the New Republic , Tony Judt calls Sidney Blumenthal's claim in The New Yorker that Whittaker Chambers attacked Alger Hiss because of spurned gay love "a smear, 1990s style.
Journal editorial-board member John H. Fund opines that many of John McCain's longtime GOP associates from Arizona--many of them now less-than-adoring of the senator--could have predicted McCain's Nixonian reaction to Monday's mildly critical NYT story (he accused the Bush campaign of "planting" the story in the Times to smear him; see yesterday's TP).
As if to underscore the unhelpful comparison with Tsongas , the Bradley campaign has been running 30-second TV ads in which Niki Tsongas, Paul's widow, says that Bradley is falling prey to the kind of smear that undermined her husband in 1992.