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...women who already had ailing hearts. Both followed their patients for a relatively short time--three to four years. It's quite possible that estrogen is better at preventing the onset of heart problems than it is at treating existing disease. We won't know whether that hypothesis is valid for five more years, when a much larger study on the effects of estrogen in healthy women reaches its conclusion...
...some extent, this concern is valid, Wang says...
...smiles. But, what do I have to say to their mom except, "How are you doing?" Aren't those feelings I'm working to suppress--"how could you have gotten pregnant so many times with different fathers, how could you yell at your kids like that"--somewhat valid? It can be hard, scary and uncomfortable to talk with parents whose values you're not sure of, who might doubt you the same way; it can seem much easier to ignore that element of a child's life...
...Likely the committee blindly stood by them, because it backed the false notion that East-West parity actually exists in women's college hockey. In other words, the committee used objective statistics to pick the two at-large teams, but failed to objectively analyze whether its stats were actually valid...
There are several responses to this. One is to shun the new at all costs: As long as there are people trying to make a buck off the Net, some might argue, it's not a valid subject for study. As soon as one student comes to TECH solely to make money, the hands of all the streaming-media researchers will be dirty...