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The WP reports that House GOP leaders, anxious to bolster their case for a large tax cut this year, are pressuring Congress' budget forecasting arm, the CBO, to produce rosier estimates of future surpluses.
Was the idea of including a placebo arm suggested but rejected as “unethical,” even though rescue medication could have been used?
Second, the unique end sequences of 8,424 BACs were aligned to the assembled chromosome arm sequences.
Second, it is the only confirmed Drosophila miRNA that deviates from the expected pattern of divergence in two fundamental ways: it not only contains a mismatch on the arm while maintaining a perfectly conserved loop (and thus failed the conservation filter as a class 5 candidate), but the mismatch actually resides within the mature miRNA sequence itself.
This idea surfaced briefly and spectacularly in 1990, when the Philadelphia Inquirer suggested in an editorial that perhaps some welfare mothers should be "offered an increased benefit" if they would agree to practice effective birth control--specifically, to use the then-new Norplant contraceptive, which prevents pregnancy for five years after being implanted under the skin of the upper arm.