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...takes today to power a war. The best one is that an F-16 burns more fuel in an hour than the average American family uses in an entire year. And each gallon of fuel costs many more times the cost of fuel at your local gas station, given the cost of transporting [it]. It may end up costing $100 or more per gallon. When you think about the fact that every day in Iraq something like 1.5 million gallons of fuel are delivered by truck convoy to U.S. forces, it's a staggering investment of human and financial resources...
...possible that the nocebo response is easily explained: in the antidepressant trials, maybe some patients - given that they already tended toward depression and anxiety - worried so much about the doctor's cautions that their stomach released enough acids to cause pain. That would make sense except that the range of possible nocebo responses stretches far beyond stomachache (in extreme cases, ailing patients who are mistakenly informed that they have only a few months to live will die within their given time frame, even though postmortem investigations show that there was no physiological explanation for early death). In a new paper...
...included in the data, then the results would suggest a 31% effectiveness rate, with 51 in the vaccine arm and 74 in the control group becoming infected with HIV. These are the results that were announced in September. But because this particular vaccine comprised two older vaccines that were given in six doses over a six-month period - in what is referred to as a prime and boost regimen, in which the early shots prime the immune system to fend off HIV and the follow-up shots boost the body's immunity - some volunteers became infected with HIV before receiving...
...Given the form we’re in, we expected to win,” Rogers said. “It’s not the worst result in the world, but it’s tough to go up to Ithaca and [not win]. It’s a brutal drive and it’s cold...
...Chainey ’11, “Last Call” takes an episodic approach to portraying a complex and emotionally wrenching situation, one Chainey’s script handles with precision and empathy. An excellent production overall, the show’s only flaw is inevitable given the venue; despite the cast’s significant talent, the piece could benefit from older, more mature actors...