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In the end, the most troubling thing about the ECDC study was the 75% resistance rate found in Norway. Like doctors elsewhere in Western Europe - and in the U.S. and Canada - Norwegians don't routinely prescribe Tamiflu to their patients. (Tamiflu is not a flu vaccine, but a post-exposure...
One of our responsibilities is to help make sure that democracy is reborn in every generation. TIME is the fourth most read consumer magazine among college students (behind Cosmopolitan, PEOPLE and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED), according to the Student Monitor, and TIME.com has a greater proportion of 18-to-34-year-olds...
? Democratic contests are not winner-take-all. Candidates win delegates in proportion to their percentage of the vote (above a 15% threshold)
"States shall allocate district level delegates and alternates in proportion to their percentage of the primary or caucus vote won in that district, except that preferences falling below a 15 percent threshold shall not be awarded any delegates."
Translated into English, Rule 13-B means that any candidate who gets more than 15% of the vote in any primary will win convention delegates in direct proportion to his or her percentage of the popular vote.