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...case this year. There are real anxieties, real differences on the big issues--the war and the economy. The cultural issues are less important now. The partisan differences between the political activists are the greatest I've ever seen." But again, what about the rest of us? "If one-third of the public are activists, another third are leaners," Kohut says, adding that the final third are only vaguely interested, if at all. "What we're seeing in our most recent surveys is that the leaners are being affected by the passions of the partisans...
Elkies wrote that he considered one-third of his paper to be original work...
Should women at high risk for breast cancer be getting MRIs? A new Dutch study of 2,000 women showed that magnetic resonance imaging detected 80% of tumors, while mammograms found only one-third. MRIs cost a lot more, however (roughly $1,000 vs. $100), and they're not perfect. MRIs produced false alarms 10% of the time, which meant three times as many unneeded biopsies. They also missed cancers that mammography caught. Still, the case for MRIs is strong enough for the American Cancer Society to recommend that women at high risk consider having both MRIs and mammograms...
...first commercially available ring-tone service, allowing users to download songs like Smoke on the Water and the Finnish national anthem. An industry was born, and last year about 2.6 billion ring tones - those musical ditties that sound off when a mobile phone receives a call - were downloaded worldwide, one-third of them in Japan. Delivered by the Internet or text message, they account for 80-95% of a "phone personalization" market that was worth $3.2 billion last year and will reach $6.5 billion in 2008, according to London market-research firm Ovum. That makes ring tones a bigger business...
...number of not-for-profit foundations throughout Europe. And a network of foundations is beginning to lobby for pan-European legislation. According to the Brussels-based European Foundation Centre, about a quarter of the 61,000 foundations in the European Union were established in the past decade. In Belgium one-third of its 323 foundations were created after 1990. Growth is particularly strong in Germany, where more than 3,000 of the nation's 12,000 foundations have been created since...