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...vaccine cannot protect against all strains of the disease. About one-third of all cases cannot be prevented...
...outcome of tight contests in Colorado, New Hampshire, Missouri, Georgia, Arkansas and elsewhere, which makes the Republicans' fund-raising edge all the more valuable. This will be the last election fluffed up by unlimited soft-money donations before the new campaign-finance laws kick in. Democrats have raised one-third less than the G.O.P. and are madly shuffling funds from state to state, depending on who is viewed as "the most vulnerable Democrat of the week," in the words of one strategist. Party officials concede that the need to help prop up Torricelli prevented them from funneling money to Oregon...
...Harvard officials say the Watertown agreement represents a special case, since Harvard’s holdings constitute about one-third of that town’s tax base and were purchased in one fell swoop. An agreement like the 1990 deal would have had catastrophic effects on Watertown’s city budget...
...listeria infection can be quite serious for anybody with a weakened immune system. That includes the very old, the very young, cancer patients and those who are hiv positive. For these groups, mortality rates of 20% to 30% are common. About one-third of listeriosis cases occur among pregnant women; they usually survive, but they risk losing their unborn child. All told, about 500 listeria-related deaths are recorded in the U.S. each year. Fortunately, the number of cases seems to be on the decline...
Opposition to the tests has been particularly determined in Cambridge, where one-third of high-schoolers regularly fail the exam...