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...beating Tobe with a long-range shot from the right point. “I think maybe in the first period we kind of took a little bit of a wait-and-see attitude,” Donato said, citing the missing Bulldog stars as a possible psychological handicap. “I think they dictated the play a little bit more than we did in the first period.” Once the game entered the second frame, however, it belonged to the Crimson, and specifically to Reese, who capitalized a series of Bulldog penalties to net three consecutive...
When Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) officers arrived at the scene at approximately 1:30 p.m. Friday, they found the man, James M. Fink, on the handicap ramp with a cell phone in one hand and a folding knife in the other, according to HUPD spokesman Steven G. Catalano. His speech was incoherent and he appeared to be intoxicated, Catalano said...
When Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) officers arrived at the scene at approximately 1:30 p.m. Friday, they found the man, James M. Fink, on the handicap ramp with a cell phone in one hand and a folding knife in the other, according to HUPD spokesman Steven G. Catalano. His speech was incoherent and he appeared to be intoxicated, Catalano said...
...effort to handicap those odds is where NNT comes in. It answers the question, How many people have to take this drug to avoid one heart attack? The same principle can be applied to avoiding one recurrence of cancer or stroke or whatever end point you choose to measure. In healthy men, the NNT for statins is about 50 (depending on which of dozens of statins is taken, age, family history, lifestyle and so on). So 50 men have to take these drugs in order to prevent a single--not necessarily fatal, heart attack...
...sort out some of the more contentious issues. There is talk that New Delhi will force any company operating in an SEZ to export at least half of its production. Whatever India's leaders do, you can be sure they will have one eye on public opinion, a handicap their Chinese counterparts rarely have to deal with...