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...software thoroughly with electromagnetic waves and electric shocks to see if they can force the engine-control modules to send the wrong signal to the throttle. Says Michels: "We haven't put any limits on them, and it could take them several months to come back with a [final] report...
Although each of these studies included several thousand diabetes patients, which bolsters the reliability of their results, it doesn't mean they are the final word on the tested treatments. In the blood-fats arm of the ACCORD study, for instance, about 40% of the volunteers had already had a previous heart event and the remainder had risk factors, other than diabetes, that put them at high risk for heart disease, notes Dr. Om Ganda, director of the lipid clinic at Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston. That means the trial was not truly a primary-prevention study designed to test...
Leading by five goals with four and half minutes remaining in the contest, the men’s lacrosse team appeared to have the game all but won. But UMass (3-2) had other ideas, going on a 4-0 run in the final minutes and turning what was a sure defeat into a nail-biter...
...forced to swallow the more conservative inclinations of Senate Democrats (and that he could use the insistence of Senators that the legislation move more to the center to get the moderate bill he wanted without having to play the heavy with the lower chamber). And he knew that final passage would require the kind of breathtaking, down-to-the-wire vote-whipping that would demand the full power of his office to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat...
...Taiwan and Tibet have long been points of dispute between the U.S. and China. During 2009 they were largely avoided, as Obama delayed final approval of the arms sale, which was initially greenlighted by his predecessor, George W. Bush, and postponed the Dalai Lama meeting to avoid offending Beijing ahead of his first state visit to China. Following this year's arms-sale announcement, however, China cut off high-level military exchanges with the U.S., which had been recently restored following China's protest over a previous weapons package that was approved by Bush...