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Took me a few minutes to find it. The ad is the one where the dude is bopping around in his car and it looks like he is singing only to find out he’s talking on his mobile. The song is Dance to the Underground from Radio 4. This is not to be confused with the other Galant ad where everyone is waving to the car. That song is from the Flaming Lips. The other great mitsubishi ad was Telepopmusiks – Breathe. The first one I remember was Dirty Vegas – Days go By.

One industry executive, Philip Perera, a medical director at GlaxoSmithKline, said that his preference was to publish all trials but that negative studies could lead doctors to prematurely reject a medicine.

“If you start publishing negative data, will it be concluded by practitioners and others that the drug is ineffective?” he asked, saying that genuinely effective medicines sometimes do no better than placebos, or dummy pills, in trials — at least half of all children seem to get better on placebos… Rest of Article

Cool map of the US that can be filtered by zip code.. Rest of Article

Almost daily weÕre told that another American soldier has sacrificed life or limb in Iraq. For way too many of us Ð unless we have a white flag with a blue star in our window Ð these casualty reports have become as big a yawn as a TV forecast of the weather in Baghdad.

Even I Ð and I deal with that beleaguered land seven days a week Ð was staggered when a Pentagon source gave me a copy of a Nov. 30 dispatch showing that since George W. Bush unleashed the dogs of war, our armed forces have taken 14,000 casualties in Iraq Ð about the number of warriors in a line tank division.

We have the equivalent of five combat divisions plus support for a total of about 135,000 troops deployed in the Iraqi theater of operations, which means weÕve lost the equivalent of a fighting division since March. At least 10 percent of the total number of Joes and Jills available to the theater commander to fight or support the occupation effort have been evacuated back to the USA!

Lt. Col. Scott D. Ross of the U.S. military’s Transportation Command told me that as of Dec. 23, his outfit had evacuated 3,255 battle-injured casualties and 18,717 non-battle injuries.

Of the battle casualties, 473 died and 3,255 were wounded by hostile fire.

Following are the major categories of the non-battle evacuations:>

Orthopedic surgery Ð 3,907
General surgery Ð 1,995
Internal medicine Ð 1,291
Psychiatric Ð 1,167
Neurology Ð 1,002
Gynecological Ð 491


Sources say that most of the gynecological evacuations are pregnancy-related, although the exact figure canÕt be confirmed Ð Pentagon pregnancy counts are kept closer to the vest than the number of nuke warheads in the U.S.arsenal.

Ross cautioned that his total of 21,972 evacuees could be higher than other reports because Òin some cases, the same service member may be counted more than once.Ó

The Pentagon has never won prizes for the accuracy of its reporting, but I think itÕs safe to say that so far somewhere between 14,000 and 22,000 soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines have been medically evacuated fromIraq to the USA.


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