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...users had cardiovascular incidents. The placebo group had 1 in 100. So the risk doubled. That's the headline (it's certainly the one I'd write). But if you read beyond the headline, the underlying risk is pretty low. It's important to note that there's no actual proof that Vioxx alone increases heart risk...
...preferable model for deciding matters of life and death is to look at the facts first, and decide what to do second. In this way, our unprovoked war might have legitimately been considered “preemptive,” because it would have been based on actual analysis of threats to American safety. More importantly, basing policy on the facts (rather than vice-versa) would have had the beneficial side-effect of avoiding thousands of unnecessary deaths...
...which seems to arrive from a spot beyond the moon, and its vast profusion of music, news and talk shows, the medium places you at the center of everything, even when you're in the middle of nowhere. The problem is that the center of everything is not an actual, inhabitable place but a floating media mirage, an invisible digital bubble of information located somewhere in the fifth dimension. Having passed through the canyonlands of Utah while listening to Caribbean pop and having crossed the Black Hills of South Dakota immersed in a disco channel called the Strobe, I feel...
...people could see it was a different sort of animal. The first few minutes had no action at all, just dialogue and scene setting, building suspense and establishing a world. That was a radical idea for a video game, but what followed was even more radical: Half-Life had actual characters whom you cared about and a plot with genuine dramatic tension. When it was released in 1998, Half-Life shocked the industry, sold 8 million copies and won 50 "game of the year" awards. Half-Life 2, released last fall, has already sold millions of copies...
...only diagnostic tool available to the surgeons is a Soviet-era X-ray machine. Ultrasound equipment? No. CT scans? No. MRI? No. There are two thoracic surgeons for chest wounds, the most common kind of injury in bomb blasts, but the hospital lacks the equipment needed to perform actual surgery. Pleas for funds and tools have been ignored by an Iraqi health ministry that doctors say is underfunded, mismanaged and corrupt. "There are days when we don't even have enough sutures," Emad says with a hollow laugh...