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...area that has a high turnover in occupancy, that’s where you see problems,” Clint Briscoe, the spokesman, said. “Because there are so many people and so many belongings passing through these areas, there is a much higher likelihood that bedbugs will be brought...
...that Douglass had suppressed the research of one of his students, Elise Bassin. Her research found an increased risk for osteosarcoma, a form of bone cancer, in young boys drinking fluoridated water. Douglass’s own studies found no connection between fluoride consumption and an increased likelihood of the cancer. While the panel of senior Harvard professors conducting the investigation did not take a position on the cancer link, they stated that Douglass “did not intentionally omit, misrepresent, or suppress” Bassin’s findings. Douglass also serves as the editor of a journal...
...that Israel has stepped up its collection of electronic intelligence in the Persian Gulf and against Arab countries that its jets might have to pass over for an attack. But how serious Israel is about actually carrying out a strike "is a separate story," he says. "I think the likelihood at the moment is pretty...
...that they were deviously protecting a psychotic murderer. Nor is there any reason to imagine that the criminal was socially well connected or was a Hollywood type (even though a preposterous rumor, repeated dismissively in a recent biography, put no less a figure than Orson Welles under suspicion). The likelihood is that this was one of those dreadful crimes that emerge from the psychopathic minds and was in no way motivated by general social conditions or, indeed, by anything-other than perhaps a chance encounter-that was deeply woven into poor Betty Short's brief, sad, agonizingly ended life...
...emphasis… placed on discovery through conjecture and experimentation.” Attracting the most shoppers of any QR, this class capitalizes on its nostalgic appeal—the nostalgia of patterns and prime numbers, factorials and probability. (“What’s the likelihood that two people in a class of 25 have the same birthday?” the professor coos while drawing a pretty picture on the board. “Order the same ice cream? Cheat off the same freshman?”) And let us not forget the most nostalgic bit: homework...