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Also, Time reports that the IRS fails to collect $150 billion a year in owed taxes, largely because its ancient computer system is too crude to catch frauds.
More recently, however, the formulation that statins act simply via cholesterol-lowering fails to account for several observations that cannot immediately be reconciled, either with the original “dogma” or with each other.
In other words arginine fails to functionally substitute for lysine even when it is present on only one subunit of the dimer.
And if Congress fails to enact the tobacco deal thereby killing these programs, says the paper, Democrats come away with a potent political issue: the Republicans favored the tobacco industry over children and health.
And it is a rather uninteresting, one-sided kind of hedonism that fails to take this into account.