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...resulting tally, then, would include a much smaller pool of participants, which automatically lessens the significance of whatever effect, if any, the vaccine appeared to have, says Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. "When you lose statistical power, something that would have been significant in the [original, larger] population, could now fall below significance merely by the lower numbers. That's what happened with this trial," Fauci says...
...what the grand arc of U.S. policy in South Asia should be. What they try to tell us is something about what life is like for the brave men who carry out that policy, one day at a time. If it's true that sometimes we've let ourselves lose sight of Afghanistan, then as a start, let's look here...
...that most students attend to prepare for the Baccalaureate exam - and university study beyond. The reason: students at vocational schools, particularly those in marginalized, immigrant-heavy areas, tend to have the most performance problems in France. Many students feel like failures after ending up in professional schools. Some also lose interest when they're moved to classes they're not interested in due to lack of space in the ones they'd requested. Truancy and dropout rates are high. (See pictures of the college dorm's evolution...
...suspense: a shadow creeping across a wall or the ripple of an unseen form under the bedsheets. The gore scenes in splatter movies carry a sadistic punch, but those are outside most moviegoers' experience. What Peli is interested in is dread, a feeling everyone is familiar with. (Will I lose my job? Has she found someone else? Why hasn't our kid come home yet? What's that strange rash?) Movies take that anxiety, crystallize it and, because fiction demands an ending, resolve it. The threat is provided, the fear made flesh, the monster confronted. All gone - feel better? Horror...
...send their kids to college or buy a home, building their 401(k), they are told, is their first priority. It's not terrible advice. The accounts grow tax-free, though you have to pay Uncle Sam's levy when you cash out. Unlike health coverage, you don't lose your 401(k) when you lose your job. And once you set the account up - a minor task at most companies - it's automatic, making it an easy, thought-free way to save. Indeed, Americans have more saved specifically for retirement than ever before. But the past year has shown...