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...Meanwhile, pre-natal screening against cancer susceptibility presents deviation from the standard practice, as screening has previously only been used against diseases with a 90-100 percent chance of causing a disease that affect the child from birth. BRCA1, however, only raises the risk of the disease from 50-85 percent, while breast cancer itself does not affect the child from birth and has the potential to be cured...
...rating agencies, such as Standard & Poor’s and Moody’s. To make a low-risk purchase of a CDS, a firm needs to buy from an insurer with an excellent credit rating. If any of these ratings are inaccurate or get downgraded, this will dramatically affect the CDS and cause panic. Therefore, the government must institute a reasonable collateral requirement for the sale of CDSs. Further, rating agencies must closely monitor investing schemes that use insurance from highly rated firms like AIG to make risky investments in poorly rated firms...
...ways, Harvard sells itself.”Several players agreed with Wade, saying that his departure will not impact next season’s recruiting class.“We have a good class coming in, and I don’t think his leaving will affect anybody,” junior guard Jeremy Lin said, a sentiment echoed by captain Andrew Pusar.It is unclear who will assume Wade’s responsibilities and whether that person will come from inside or outside the program.“I know [Amaker] has got a wide list of names...
...Road” and “Light a Candle.” Their lighter instrumentation, the latter featuring just Young and his acoustic, work to highlight the complex vocal harmonies that were present throughout the album. Young’s uniquely fragile and charming voice shines through, honorably affected by time. Instances like this, in which Young exchanges nagging rhetoric for blunt vulnerability are rare, but rewarding. And though he has his heartfelt moments, it may not be enough to compensate for sitting through an album that seems to have largely ignored its audience’s desires?...
...opponents. A team of aides assigned to focus on abortion reduction plans to hold its first meetings with pro-life and pro-choice advocates over the next month. But it is already encountering some resistance from both sides and doesn't foresee acting on the issue in time to affect funding before the 2011 fiscal year...