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...continue illegally sharing files, they’ll need to wise up. Not all file-sharers need to fear, however. So far, the RIAA has only targeted uploaders of copyrighted materials, meaning that students who only download files will not face legal action. Programs like myTunes and ad hoc file-sharing networks on campus and networks based in certain other nations have not been affected by the RIAA’s lawsuits either. The RIAA will never succeed in changing the habits of 60 million people in the U.S. and untold other millions worldwide. To put the risk-reward equation...
Solomon said the “$64,000 question” raised by his findings is why post hoc clinical studies—which look at patients already receiving statins as part of a larger patient group—find no association between statins and the frequency of bone fractures, while observational studies—which administer statins and lipid-lowering drugs to patients—find such an association...
...post-hoc analyses...are often small and only include a restricted population,” he wrote. These studies typically focus on “high-risk cardiac patients” who “may not be the group of patients likely to benefit from statins with respect to bone mineral density,” he added...
...mentoring hole by compiling painstaking lists of design principles--lessons learned when particular engineering techniques either did or didn't work. That system should serve in a pinch, but the lab is determined never to let the teaching system lapse again. "Mentoring is something we've been doing ad hoc for years," Manning says. "That's allowed us to collectively grow...
...thumbs down," says a Senate Republican staffer involved in the planning. The GOP staffers feared a repeat of the Bork and Thomas hearings where the audience was predominantly hostile. So in addition to the skyboxes, there has been a consistent presence of Roberts?s supporters, including apparently ad hoc groups like 'Women for Roberts...