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...something of a star of the small screen, a veteran of game shows as well as serious news programs. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown disparaged Johnson in a recent interview with Piers Morgan in GQ, saying, "I don't think people want politicians to be some sort of subset of the entertainment business." Polls of Londoners and Conservative grass-roots voters suggest that's not entirely true of Boris. A poll of London voters taken this spring, a year after Johnson moved into City Hall, found 46% to be satisfied with the way he is doing his job, compared with...
...While H1N1 infection results in mild or moderate disease in most patients - indeed, the most severe cases account for a small proportion of overall infections - a subset of patients are harder hit, the data show. And in those patients, the disease can often quickly become life-threatening. "The major point of our findings is that there has been a lot of perception that this is a mild disease, and a lot of people may be ambivalent about vaccination," says Dr. Janice Louie, a public-health medical officer at the California Department of Public Health and the study's lead author...
Closer scrutiny of last month's report of the first successfully tested AIDS vaccine suggests scientists spoke too soon. Analysis of a subset of data found that the vaccine's benefit may not be statistically significant; odds of being protected from infection could be no better than chance. Critics say the study's authors should have waited to publicize the results until after other scientists had vetted them...
Let’s go back to athletics for a minute, as this subset of the greater Harvard population seems to be one of the most impacted. Changes that inconvenience all of us are of particular significance to athletes...
...September; they received the data after. The article also misstated that these researchers published their concerns on the website of the journal Science; in fact they gave interviews to a Science reporter. Clarification: The original article did not elucidate the particular conditions under which researchers would analyze a smaller subset of clinical trial data, rather than the complete, original set; those details have been incorporated in the text...