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...Netroots' numbers shows them to be something less than a groundswell. The readership of the largest liberal blogs and the membership of MoveOn suggest that the Netroots could total 6 million people, and that assumes blog audiences don't overlap, which they do. That's only a small fraction of even the Democrats in the U.S., who number more than 70 million. While 5 million people can elect the Governor of California, the Netroots are dispersed all over the country. Even in Connecticut, one of the most liberal states, Ned Lamont, Lieberman's primary nemesis, couldn't rely on just...
...Since C-sections cost only a fraction (about $200) more than vaginal deliveries, their popularity extends throughout middle-class Iran. I've eavesdropped extensively in the waiting rooms of five separate obstetricians and can report that traditional, chador-clad women are just as likely to choose C-sections as their Westernized, pink-veil-wearing counterparts. Alarmed by the rising rate, the government has started radio and television campaigns informing women of the risks Caesareans carry for both infant and mother...
...them back to the Coop. The trouble is, because professors usually don’t submit their reading lists for the fall semester before you go on summer break, students who do not have space to store books end up selling them back to the Coop for a tiny fraction of the original price—much less than the half price they can get in the fall...
...education," countered Alistair Darling, the Trade and Industry Secretary. Abolishing inheritance tax "may make for a headline, but I don't think it makes for a prudent and sensible tax and spend policy." When it comes to the figures, both sides are right. It's true that only a fraction of British households pay inheritance tax - it's currently levied on about 6% of the estates of people who die. But that percentage will change dramatically in the next 15 years as the baby-boomer generation starts to die off and pass its property and other assets onto the next...
...that we couldn't check the other three," Ellis says a few days later, "but we're now very confident and very excited. If we've found this many in such a tiny area of the sky, there could be enough of these small galaxies to supply a substantial fraction of the energy that reionized the universe. I'm very confident that we have an important result...