The bacteria are "remarkably common in the water and in the environment, " according to Dr. Buddy Creech, assistant professor of pediatric infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University.

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In the hedgerow fighting, he and his buddy told one other person each that the local water was contaminated, just to see how long it took to get back to them.

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If Gore can paint Bush as big oil's buddy, determined to invade environmentally protected regions and indifferent to air and water quality, this will hurt Bush mightily among exactly those "swing" voters about whom we have heard so much: young, parents of small children, fiscally conservative but environmentally liberal.

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