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...compared with how they would do without it or whether they should be on a different medicine. Take statins, drugs that aim to reduce bad cholesterol. A typical trial might give one group of men a statin for, say, five years and give a second group a placebo, or fake pill...
Beat poet William Burroughs perhaps put it best when describing his brief time at Harvard: “I hated the university and I hated the town it was in. Everything about the place was dead. The university was a fake English setup taken over by the graduates of fake English public schools. I was lonely. I knew no one and strangers were regarded with distaste by the closed corporation of the desirables...
...used to be all show biz, and now it's just one flower in my flower bed," says the man who wrote himself a $10 million check as a show of confidence when he started his career. "I was very one-track-minded. I'd have to fake what I did for fun if someone asked. 'Well, I like to ride horses.' I said that to an interviewer once. I'll ride horses once or twice a year. If that." He assumes, in fact, that at some point he will retire from the entertainment business, so he can have...
...Crimson scored again on a perfectly executed 2-on-1 by Chu and Vaillancourt, and made it 3-0 late in the first period when Chu capitalized on a power-play chance with her 17th goal of the season. Chu beat Belliveau with a deft fake and buried the puck from the backhand side...
...official promises to take serious steps to protect intellectual property rights and prevent counterfeiting. Greg Shea, who represents a U.S. information technology association, says he has no doubt that the central government is sincere when they tell him that they want to close down the factories that pump out fake software for pennies. "They just can't get the locals to do it. There's too much money being made...