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According to Fauci, however, the trial was not designed to license the vaccine but to test whether the concept of using the two vaccines in sequence would work. In the latter condition, statisticians say scientists generally consider all data from the complete, original population, since these numbers more accurately reflect what might happen in the real world. In other words, it's a more rigorous analysis of how effective a vaccine might be in a population of people who, realistically, could be exposed to HIV before they finish the full six doses of the vaccine...
Finally, you may not enter the promised land. Forced to die across the Jordan on Mount Nebo, Moses confronts his final choice: Will he fight or prepare the Israelites for the future? He chooses the latter. "I have put before you this day life and prosperity, death and adversity," he says. "Choose life...
International copper prices rose markedly earlier in this decade. Instead of spending the funds on projects of near-term political value, Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet and Finance Minister Andrés Velasco (the latter on leave from the Kennedy School) took the lead to create an investment fund that would not be tapped for ongoing operational expenses. The fund could be used to help the Chilean economy avoid an economic collapse; when the worldwide financial crisis broke out 18 months ago, the Chilean government was ready with a countercyclical budget—it spent to cushion...
...committee recommended that the former be renamed “Bachelor of Liberal Arts” and the latter be split into a “Master of Liberal Arts” and a “Master of Professional Studies...
...Perry stands by the decision to execute Willingham. "I am familiar with the latter-day supposed experts on the arson side of it," Perry told the Dallas Morning News last month. Over the weekend, his office told the Corsicana Daily Sun: "Governor Perry has reviewed the totality of the facts of the case, and has stood by the conclusions reached by the courts ... To suggest the arson testimony was the only evidence presented to the jury is grossly inaccurate. The jury also heard testimony of inaccuracies in Willingham's statements...