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...with the controls. But when you consider the absolute risk of death in either group, the results are somewhat less stunning. The risk of death in the placebo group was just 8.5%, compared to 5% in the Zocor group - a difference of a mere 3.5%. Both survival numbers are correct, but which one would you use if you were writing the ad copy...
...former subcontracted janitor who worked at Harvard, said in Spanish through a translator at the meeting that he was laid off on Mar. 13 from a job he had held for five years. His unemployment has left him without health insurance, he said, and as a result, surgery to correct his wife’s blindness will now cost...
...Gregg may not be correct and his point of view may make him an outlier. But there is no denying the fact that there has been almost no time spent in the Congressional conversation about what could happen to the budget if either the revenue or expense assumptions at the core of the Administration or CBO analyses are wrong by a substantial margin. The projections of GDP growth only have to be a percent or two too low for deficits to go up by hundreds of billions if not trillions of dollars over the next decade. Not a single page...
...Correct. In fact the museum was closed in September of 1980 when Saddam Hussein invaded Iran and Iran started lobbing missiles into Baghdad. So the museum was closed from that time until opening for a day in 2003 and then until this opening. [It's] only been open fewer than a half dozen times and never open to the general public. The museum itself, in the last several decades has been called Saddam's gift shop by the average Iraqi. (See pictures of treasure hunting in Afghanistan...
...trend alert. The dark blue/purple that serves as the base color for a large number of house shirts (Leverett, Eliot, Kirkland, Lowell, Cabot, if memory serves us correct) is not a good look. Shouldn't you want to stand out in a crowd? Cabot House, however, gets a few points for this reasonably clever shirt (FlyBy doesn't ask for much...