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...treatment, and reduce overall illness and deaths. The Google Flu Trends service, which was launched in the U.S. in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is now working with Mexican officials to track search trends in that country. The goal is to help authorities discern whether and where the disease is spreading, getting worse or starting to subside...
Variations in these genes on chromosome 5 are extremely common - present in more than half of healthy people. But they are even more common in individuals with autism, affecting 65%. It takes enormous genomewide association studies like this one - what researchers call very "high powered" studies - to discern this kind of statistical difference. (See six tips on traveling with an autistic child...
...worked because it has been well-run due to superior government intelligence and judicious use of the money Hearing all of this, Representative Jeb Hensarling, a Texas Republican, said "The public and this panel have a right to know how Treasury defines success. For many it is difficult to discern." That was the most pertinent question during the proceedings and the one Geither least wanted to answer. So, he did not. He had learned the lesson that transparency only leads to a call for more transparency and then there is no end to explaining what should be explained to Congress...
...raft bucks and rears in the waves, spinning dangerously on the edge of a giant hole that appears in the water. "Left Forward! Hard!" shouts Eamon Maddocks, our guide, as a wave crashes over the bow, submerging us in a sparkling effervescence, an icy electricity. From far away, I discern Eamon's voice, yelling "Paddle! Paddle!" And I do, furiously...
...then to be kept from going back in!And there was Ezekiel going out the doors. “Ezekiel.”The shambles of clouds and mist and morning lit up the open door. I couldn’t see his face but I could discern his good ear turning towards me.I took a few steps towards him and saw the light trickle out as he came back in.“It’s just a shame you’re going to miss Easter.” Then he laughed. “It?...