Weese

Its two existing theaters -- designed in the 1960s and early '70s by Harry Weese, the architect who designed Washington's Metro system -- were ugly and inadequate, but they were also historic and had landmark status.

Arena Stage's new building: a brilliant addition, and a challenge, to the city Philip Kennicott 2010

The cradle, which is entered through a long, narrow, gently sloping semicircular passageway, creates an energy of contradiction and inwardness that does indeed balance the factory-like Weese theaters.

Arena Stage's new building: a brilliant addition, and a challenge, to the city Philip Kennicott 2010

Tracking back, and checking their hunches against clinical records and nasal swabs, the staff realized that several of them must have picked up the infection from the first foal and passed it to the second one.24 The discovery left Weese and his co-workers and students with tangled emotions.

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But for Weese, and for Tara Smith in Iowa, infections were not the biggest issue.

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In Canada, Scott Weese had been thinking along the same lines.

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It looked to Weese as though MRSA was crossing species in both directions, with ST398 coming from pigs to humans, and humans transmitting the Canadian community strain back to pigs.

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Through lighting, the Weese design team succeeded in creating a theater-like ambience verging at times on mystery.

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In 2007, with growing news of animal MRSA in the Netherlands, Weese, two other Guelph professors, and a graduate student decided to look for MRSA in Canadian pigs.

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Through lighting, the Weese design team succeeded in creating a theater-like ambience verging at times on mystery.

Shaping the City: Let there be light (carefully) in Metro stations 2010

They found ST398 in nineteen of them.53 Weese presented the findings at a scientific conference, sliding them in almost unnoticed, in one of the last sessions of the week, at the end of a discussion of the emergence of ST398.

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