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...spite of Vista’s well-publicized release in January 2007, consumer demand for Windows XP has been quite strong, and XP still retained a dominant 75 percent market share as of September 2007 . In fact, Dell, one of the largest American computer manufacturers, re-introduced Windows XP into the retail channel last April, because of high demand from customers. Despite this continued demand, on June 30, 2008 Windows XP will no longer be available in retail outlets; by February 2009, no one—not even custom personal computer builders—will be able to carry...
...scientists administered both vaccine types to guinea pigs and found TB symptoms in only one percent of lung and spleen tissue from animals receiving the aerosal treatment, compared to five and 10 percent for those that had been injected...
Following months of data collection, Jonathan Monten of the Belfer Center at the Kennedy School of Government and Radha K. Iyengar of the Center for Government and International Studies determined that there was a 5-10 percent increase in insurgent attacks following a spike in anti-war rhetoric...
...substantial number of non-athletic likelies before March 31. Fitzsimmons calls it an “unprecedented year” with many other colleges trying to poach students who could be lured away without an early Harvard admission.Yale, for one, saw applicants to its early pool rise by 36 percent, following both Harvard’s and Princeton’s decisions to end early admissions.The strategy is targeted to athletes in particular because they often face intense pressure from interested colleges to accept or decline an offer of admission, and if Harvard doesn’t act early they...
...sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among young people, especially in females. Federal health officials have reported in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey that one in four female teenagers is infected with at least one of four common infections, including chlamydia, herpes, human papillomavirus (HPV), and trichomoniasis. Furthermore, fifteen percent of the infected women had more than one of the diseases. The shocking nature of the findings lends a sense of urgency to providing better sexual education and services to our nation’s youth. While the sexual health of young people has always elicited controversial discussion, the Bush...