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Lesions in this general category tend to have a single gene mutation that may be the only lesion found in the precursor lesions.
An additional dollar of government saving and debt reduction does not automatically increase national saving and investment by a dollar because changes in saving by households and businesses will tend to offset some of the change in government saving.
Breast cancer is the leading female malignancy in the world and is now the most common cancer in Nigeria [ 1 2 3 ] . Despite this, there is a sixfold variation in incidence when Western countries are compared with the developing countries of Africa and Asia, and immigrants from low incidence countries tend to acquire the rate of their new environments [ 2 4 ] . Some of this variation may be due to demographic factors such as longer life expectancy, better reporting of disease and improved access to clinical care.
I tend to believe MacDonell's claim of pure, publicity-seeking self-interest.
Even though handgun deaths are actually down a bit from the early '90s, says a piece in Sunday's NYT "Week in Review," recent well-publicized shootings tend to stimulate lawful gun purchases for household protection, which may be bad news for those households, since according to one quoted expert, "the odds that a home will be the scene of a homicide are substantially greater if there is a gun in the home."