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...clear how denosumab, should it win approval, would fit into the anti-osteoporosis market for treating postmenopausal women. Among these patients, the study suggests, the experimental compound would be slightly more effective at reducing fractures than the bisphosphonate drugs Fosamax (alendronate) and Boniva (ibandronate), but no better than Reclast (zoledronic acid), the once-a-year solution that doctors administer intravenously...
...commuters, the “boda boda” ride is an indispensable daily ritual. But despite their utility, operators like Yoweri occupy a position among the most universally reviled inhabitants of the city center, hovering somewhere near corrupt politicians and prostitutes...
...this entire summer concert series was actually artistically significant. It occurred outside, first of all, in the open air of the National Mall, “America’s front yard,” where any passerby could stop and listen. Then, it took place among art of a different kind—the modern visual pieces in the Sculpture Garden. As my ears learned new ways of making a piano and a trombone combine, my eyes tried to dissect what looked like a giant pulley—Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen’s Typewriter Eraser...
...these gates—how like the Chinese examination system. It is bigger and badder than the SAT, because Chinese colleges look at nothing else but this single test when accepting students. Gao kao—a phrase feared among high school seniors—represents a one-time chance to determine a significant portion, if not the rest, of your life. It is one of China's most unrelenting dams, after which students trickle into universities and later ooze into the job force...
...France and nearby countries like the Netherlands, Germany, and Italy that have curtailed or given consideration to curtailing the presence of burqas in public have tended to conflate these two issues—individual as victim versus affront to society. The assumption among Europeans is that the onus is on the immigrant to conform to traditional European society. This sentiment is prevalent even among some politicians who are the sons and daughters of Muslim immigrants. The attitude is: “If you want to stay in our country, then adopt our customs, language, and values, or else go home...