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...Today, that percentage is closer to 100%. All 50 states test for at least 21 diseases, and 24 states screen for the entire panel of 29 conditions. That expansion of testing can be traced in part to technology; new techniques make it easier to detect specific genetic changes and the presence or absence of certain proteins that are the hallmarks of the diseases...
...point of view, is pretty noisy. Even the 19th century gets kind of noisy to me, it can be hard to sort through where real patterns are to be found. I don’t know that I think that it necessarily makes the historian’s task easier to have more stuff. 14. FM: If you had a question to ask Jameson or any of the people he’s modeled after, what would it be? JL: They can only tell us what they’ve already told us. I often get that question... my relationship...
...finally be starting to thaw. Morgan Stanley says that its analysts are seeing an improved credit landscape in most of the industries they track. "With the exception of utilities, a clear majority of firms in every other sector reported that credit availability had either remained the same or become easier over the past three months," Morgan Stanley's February 17 report notes...
...extend this idea to the environment. The company recently hired experts to calculate the cost—measured in pounds of carbon dioxide—of one of its products, Tropicana orange juice, which it plans to print on packaging in the future. This innovative move both makes it easier for consumers to be savvy about the environment and holds companies to a higher standard during the manufacturing process. Other leading brands should follow PepsiCo’s lead in publishing carbon-footprint numbers, with the aid and the imperative of the government...
...focus on the fight, he says, and not enough on development. "I wanted to show the conflict between ordinary Afghans and the foreign soldiers who don't know how to listen." Even if the message is heavy, his touch is light, a tactic to make the criticism easier to swallow. In one scene the soldiers fantasize about having multiple wives, while the refugee-clan patriarch, who has three, drowns his sorrows in opium smoke. Each wife has her own abandoned tank - call it a postapocalyptic, polygamous, Afghan trailer park - but the patriarch spends most of his nights banished outdoors. Every...