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25 Although these supplementary measures may explain why individual households may choose to save less, the NIPA personal saving rate shows that people are consuming virtually all of their current income and saving little for the future.
These experiments could be expanded to large-scale screens (St Johnston 2002), but this would be time consuming and could encounter the problem that some genes will be cell lethal, preventing the analysis of their function in actin dynamics.
Getting around the island is time consuming and difficult because it is divided by wide creeks, swamps, and lakes, but each of these main settlements is served by an airport.
Finally, our matched case-control study was designed to assess the first-level effect of tap water exposure and not the effect of boiling or filtering (although this information was collected from subjects that answered "yes" to consuming tap water).
All these methods have problems; some are very invasive, others are very time consuming, and none are completely reliable.