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...bill also gave the HCC maximum flexibility in its artist choice by including a clause allowing it to negotiate with artists...
...appears to be one of the most brutal mass sterilization and abortion campaigns in years. Starting in March, family-planning officials in Linyi's nine counties and three districts trawled villages, looking to force women pregnant with illegal children to abort, and to sterilize those who already had the maximum allotment of children under the local family-planning policy. According to that regulation, which exists in a similar form in most rural areas, women with a son are not allowed to bear more children, whereas mothers whose first child is handicapped or a girl are allowed to have a second...
...matching programs that exist are not efficient," says Segev, whose optimized matching system, developed with Gentry, was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in April. Based on an algorithm created by the Canadian mathematician Jack Edmonds in 1965, the system improves paired donation by ensuring the maximum number of matches while still factoring in age, location and willingness to travel. Segev estimates that if only 7% of kidney-transplant hopefuls participated in a national program, the health-care system would save $750 million annually, since fewer patients would spend years on dialysis waiting for that perfect match...
...aspirin has a downside. For every 1 or 2 women who were protected from cancer, 8 developed serious gastrointestinal bleeding. Keep in mind that the only way to get the maximum benefit was to take the higher doses of aspirin for at least a decade. Beyond that, Dr. Michael Thun of the American Cancer Society says, "We are not even sure which group of people will gain enough benefit to exceed the risks...
Consider: in the first few minutes of the two-hour pilot, Scofield, a structural engineer, holds up a bank, although he has no criminal record or need for money; waits for the police to show up; pleads no contest to armed robbery; asks to be sent to the same maximum-security hellhole as his sib; and, the better to look the part, gets a massive tattoo all over his torso. That tattoo might as well read, HELLO, I AM GOING TO BREAK MY WRONGFULLY IMPRISONED BROTHER OUT OF JAIL...