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BEIRUT - The Directorate-General of Antiquities, Lebanon, has said that it plans to resume excavation at the Freres' archaeological site in the old city of Sidon in collaboration with a delegation of the British museum, in order to uncover more ancient ruins.arlier excavation procedures at the site led to the discovery of several of the city's underground layers, which dated back to 1,000-4,000 B.C.

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WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama's first trip to Sub-Saharan Africa won't include a stop in his father's Kenyan homeland because the violence-plagued country's leaders "do not seem to be moving into a permanent reconciliation that would allow the country to move forward." Obama will make a stop in Ghana next week at the end of a trip to Russia and Italy.

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Arkansas Children's Hospital provides innovative care for patients and families in the fields of childhood cancer, pediatric cardiology, neonatology, pediatric orthopedics, vascular anomalies and more.
The physicians, nurses and staff of Arkansas Children's Hospital are committed to providing care, love and hope to the children of Arkansas and the world.

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WASHINGTON - A music historian has assessed Michael Jackson's musical greatness, classifying him as "one of the world's great entertainers and a pivotal figure in the history of American music." John Covach, professor of music and chair of the Department of Music at the University of Rochester and professor of music theory at the Eastman School of Music, reacted to the King of Pop's shock death on June 25.

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Type 1 Diabetes is when someone can produce little or no insulin, due mainly to immune and genetic (inherited) defects in the pancreas. People with Type 1 Diabetes create approximately only 10% of all of people diagnosed with diabetes. Type 1 can occur at a relatively young age, especially during childhood. At the time of diagnosis, people are usually of average weight, experiencing weight loss; frequent urination, blurred vision and dry mouth and their blood fasting sugar are way above 125 points (mg/dl). Type 1 diabetics have to depend on insulin use for the rest of their lives, in order to survive and making good lifestyle choices is integral to diabetes control. Oral Diabetes medications that are Sensitizers (see detailed discussion of this group of drugs in Action Step 2 right after the Insulin section) can be prescribed along with Insulin for people with Type 1 which can help reduce the amount of daily insulin used. Also leading and maintaining an active Lifestyle and making favorable food choices and raising your fiber intake can all help bring Diabetes under control and reduce the amount of total daily insulin dose (decisions about insulin dosing can ONLY be made by your doctor). Refer to Action Step 4 for a detailed discussion on how to start and maintain an active Lifestyle and make favorable food choices.

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Dr. Rande Lazar is a Memphis Otolaryngologist with a primary focus in pediatric ear, nose and throat disorders, including ear infections, throat infections, tonsil infections, sinus infections and sleep disorders. Dr. Rande Lazar has special expertise in adult and pediatric sleep and snoring disorders and surgery, as well as adult and pediatric sinus disorders. Dr. Rande Lazar is experienced in a wide range of disorders of the ear, nose, throat, sinus, respiratory system and the other head and neck systems, as well as children’s disorders of the larynx (voicebox), and hearing problems.
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Wikipedia:
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), located in Laurel, Maryland, is a not-for-profit, university-affiliated research center employing 4,150 people. APL is primarily a defense contractor. It serves as a technical resource for the Department of Defense, NASA, and other government agencies. The Lab is a research and development organization rather than an academic division of Johns Hopkins University. Hopkins’ Whiting School of Engineering offers part-time graduate programs through its Engineering and Applied Science Programs for Professionals. Courses are taught at seven locations in the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area, including the APL Education Center.[1]
APL was created in 1942 during World War II under the Office of Scientific Research and Development as part of the Government’s effort to mobilize the nation’s science and engineering expertise within its universities. Its founding director was Merle Anthony Tuve. The Laboratory succeeded in developing the variable-time proximity fuze [2] that played a significant role in the Allied victory. Expected to disband, APL instead became heavily involved in the development of guided missile technology for the Navy. At Government request, the University continued to maintain the Laboratory as a public service.
APL was originally located in Silver Spring, Maryland at the former Wolf Motor Company building at 8621 Georgia Avenue.[3] APL moved to Laurel beginning in 1954, with all staff moving there by 1975.[4][5] Before moving to Laurel, APL also maintained the Forest Grove Station, north of Silver Spring on Georgia Avenue near todays Forest Glen Metro,[6] which included a hypersonic wind tunnel.[7] The Forest Grove Station was vacated and torn down in 1963 and flight simulations were moved to Laurel. [8]
The Laboratory’s name comes from its origins in World War II, but APL’s major strengths are system engineering and technology application. About half of the technical staff are engineers, and 25% have computer science and math degrees. APL conducts programs in fundamental and applied research; exploratory and advanced development; test and evaluation; and systems engineering and integration.
From 1965 through 1990, APL provided technical support to and performed testing to improve the performance and survivability of the Pershing missile systems.
The U.S. Navy continues to be APL’s primary long-term sponsor. The Laboratory performs work for the Missile Defense Agency, the Department of Homeland Security, intelligence agencies, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and others. The Laboratory supports NASA through space science, spacecraft design and fabrication, and mission operations. APL has made significant contributions in the areas of air defense, strike and power projection, submarine security, antisubmarine warfare, strategic systems evaluation, command and control, distributed information and display systems, sensors, information processing and space systems. APL has built and operated many spacecraft, including: the TRANSIT navigation system, NEAR, Geosat, ACE, TIMED, CONTOUR, Messenger, New Horizons, and STEREO.

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Studies Show Need for Discernment
By Father John Flynn, LC
Media can be a positive influence in the lives of children and adolescents, but care is needed to avoid the negative side effects. This is the conclusion of a series of 10 short papers just released by the journal Children and Electronic Media.
The papers are summaries of research carried out by The Future of Children, which is a collaboration of the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University and the Brookings Institution that promotes policies and programs regarding children.
That media does affect behavior is certainly something that advertisers believe. The paper titled Marketing and Media noted that in 2003, American teenagers in the 12- to 17-year-old bracket spent $112.5 billion. In 2004, total U.S. marketing expenditures were estimated at some $15 billion to target products to children.
Television is still the most important medium for advertising to children, with children viewing approximately 40,000 advertisements per year on television.
Taking advantage of the fact that online marketing to children is far less regulated than television, however, the study noted that advertisers are moving to the Internet. Methods include embedding ads in games and using online chat forums to promote products.
Marketers have also developed tracking software that, in one example cited in the paper, allows children to transfer music from the Web, but also sends back information to the provider about the music preferences of each user.
Violence
One of the longstanding concerns regarding children and the media is over the issue of violence. The paper concluded that when children view media violence, they often act aggressively, experience fear, develop unrealistic perceptions concerning the violence that exists in the real world, or develop less advanced moral strategies.
These conclusions, the paper points out, are based on hundreds of studies made on the subject of the impact of media violence on children.
The paper commented that heavy viewers of television violence are affected in their capacity to reason morally. Such children are more likely to judge a hypothetical use of force as morally correct. In general these children displayed less advanced moral reasoning strategies.
Its not just television that brings youth into contact with violence, as many video games graphically portray violent activities. The most popular video games played by youth contain violence, and these violent games have been linked to a host of aggression-related cognitive, emotional and behavioral outcomes, the paper observed.
Other negative effects
Violence isnt the only worrying aspect of media usage. A recent study published in the journal Pediatrics found a link between television and sexual activity, reported the Washington Post on Nov. 3. The researchers tracked more than 700 12- to 17-year-olds for three years.
If found that teens who watch a lot of television featuring flirting, discussion of sex and sex scenes are much more likely than their peers to get pregnant or get a partner pregnant.
Sexual content on television has doubled in the last few years, especially during the period of our research, said the lead researcher Anita Chandra, according to the Washington Post.
Another article from the Washington Post, dated Dec. 2, reported that researchers from the National Institutes of Health and Yale University found strong connections between media exposure and problems such as childhood obesity and tobacco use.
The researchers collated the results of 173 studies and summarized the results. Approximately 80% of the studies showed a link between a negative health outcome and media hours or content, the Washington Post reported.
The study also said that the average modern child spends a total of nearly 45 hours a week using various forms of media, including television, movies, magazines, music, Internet and video games.
Video games can also be addictive for some adolescents. An extreme case was that of Canadian teen Brandon Crisp whose parents became so concerned over the amount of time he was spending on this that they prohibited any further use, the Globe and Mail newspaper reported Oct. 22.
Rather than give up his gaming, Brandon ran away from home on Oct. 12. He was subsequently found dead in the woods, apparently after falling from a tree.
The Globe and Mail said that concern over such obsessive use of Internet and video games led to the establishment in 2008 of the Center for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, designed to treat adolescents addicted to gambling, the Internet and video games.
Technology has hit us like a bomb; the rapidity with which technology is advancing, we cant even describe it from a research perspective, said Cris Rowen, a pediatric occupational therapist and sensory specialist in Sechelt, British Columbia, to the Globe and Mail.
New developments
One of the papers looked at the topic of teens and the Internet. Instant messaging, social networking sites, video sharing, and multiplayer online games, are just some of the ways in which adolescents are online.
So far there is limited research on the effects of these various new forms of interaction have on teens, the paper admitted. Nevertheless, there is concern over cyberbullying and online harassment. Moreover, in many cases the victims of such bullying do not know the identity of their aggressor, making it more difficult to stop this harassment.
An article published Dec. 18 by the Wall Street Journal reported that a study of 3,767 middle schoolers published in the Journal of Adolescent Health found that 11% reported being bullied on the Web recently. Another 7% said they had been bullied and admitted they had harassed others.
One recent case saw a mother from Missouri on trial for her part in a bullying that resulted in a 13-year-old girl committing suicide, reported the Associated Press, Nov. 28.
A federal jury could not reach a verdict on the main charge of conspiracy against Lori Drew, and she was found guilty of three misdemeanor charges.
In the trial, prosecutors said Drew and two others created a fictitious 16-year-old boy on MySpace and sent flirtatious messages from him to teenage neighbor Megan Meier. The boy then dumped Megan and insulted her, after which Megan hanged herself.
While most sites are aware of such problems the sheer volume of material makes it difficult to effectively monitor what is going on. According to the Wall Street Journal article, YouTube gets 13 hours of new video every minute.
Parenting
One of the papers published by Children and Electronic Media, titled Parenting in a Media-Saturated World, commented that parents face a difficult task in regulating their childrens media use. Its not just a question of preventing kids using the media because there are positive aspects, such as educational television programs, the paper continued. It also noted that marketing campaigns can promote healthy behavior among teens.
Even video games can have positive effects. Studies have found that playing video games can enhance visual awareness and increase capacity for processing information.
The paper did, however, point out that the use of educational television for infants and toddlers is questionable. Research suggests that under the age of three, children learn much more effectively from real-life examples than they do from video demonstrations.
Be aware and be involved, was the papers recommendation. Awareness includes understanding the various forms of media and types of content that your children are using. Involvement means monitoring the type of media being used by children, and also the amount of time being devoted to media use by children.
The paper also urged parents to put pressure on the media industry to develop better content, more accurate ratings systems, and to cut back on inappropriate advertising. No doubt these measures could help, but more than ever parents have to take responsibility for helping their children develop healthy media habits.
Courtesy Zenit.

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This seems to be a big question in todays world. I see the news articles and it is pretty sad. I read them because that is how I aspire to write the things I write about. This shows how the world and the kind of people that are out there. You know not everyone is a bad person, I believe the circumstance society places them makes and creates bad circumstances whether they are bad or good. I am not saying that this makes people do or create the stupid things they do absolutely not. These become choices that individuals make on their own. Circumstance are not always perfect actually they ever are but the choices we make can be for each individual depending on their situation and circumstance.
I suppose the first step one needs to take is to find the purpose in life in each individual not always an easy task to accomplish. First you need to find what you love to do, but you have to be very passionate about whatever that might be. You have to find that purpose to begin or I should say before you begin to make your mark on this earth. I have studied other philosophies on lifes purpose and some I agree with and others I do not. Some say that there is no life purpose because at the end you die so what is the point. Wow though that statement is profound, I find it to be somewhat disturbing. Why you might ask well I will explain why. I think one needs to ask one question in silence. Is this how I want to live my life like. Is this what I was placed on this earth for.
One must contemplate on these questions. Growing up being one of seventeen children seventeen children that is correct seventeen. Think about that I was working at six years old picking cotton and apples and whatever the farms planted at that time. I clearly remember crying to my mother because I had splinters under my fingernails ( painful mmmm extremely for a six year old) As I grew older I figured out my purpose in life was not grow old in a town I knew had nothing for me or perhaps that was just my perception I truly do not know that answer,but either way that is what I saw at that time. I remember seeing my mother dealing with all of us and man I have to tell you being parents of seventeen, working trying to feed all of us, well my friends you have an imagination use it and try to put that into perspective.
The point that I am trying to make here is not the wow seventeen kids but how I found my purpose. I knew back then when I was a teen that there had be something better to life and I found it. I knew I wanted to finish school and go on to college and earn a degree or two. I did not know how or when that would be accomplished but I did it. I found a way to accomplish it. Today i have one beautiful daughter that I would never ever give up on though there some people that wanted me to give up on her during our divorce but I never did not because I was being pushed or literally being strangled by the justice  system but because my purpose at that time was to be her daddy and guess what that is what I am today to her.
Today I have a Masters Degree in Business Administration with a minor in Philosophy. It took hard work to do it and today I am still trying to find that purpose in the now. I know that my purpose now is to take care of my four children and my beautiful wife. Once you have kids, well life just changes and thus your purpose in life. The point in life is this: That life is an ever changing cycle and when it comes to full circle you will know whether you found your purpose in life through out your lifetime. Me personally I am only halfway through mine and have a ways to go but I will keep on searching for it. Do not let anyone tell you ever that there is no point in life because there is and when you find it and you will find it many times over because life is cyclical and in each step you take towards that point you may have to take different roads each time.
Society is not to blame for our choices, I believe society might make it easier to make stupid choices, but what it comes down to is that the choice you make as an individual is not societys fault.
Life has its twists and turns it is the choice we make when we arrive at the twists and turns that will determine the outcome.
Luciano Santini
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Samuel Butler
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
John Lennon
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha
Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.
Thomas L. Holdcroft
In life you find that one of the most desirable qualities you can find in a person is flexibility. The ability to change with changing times, to face adversity with the same attitude one would have in facing victory.
I save the best for last; This last quote is one of my favourite of all time.

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I use a wireless card to connect my desktop to the internet. I Also want to connect my ps2 in the same room to the internet. The router is to far away for it to be practical running a lan cable from it to the ps2. I am currently able to get one of my ps2 games online using ics on Windows XP and an extra lan card on the desktop but the other 2 games wont work. I know ics is not ideal for this and even with the Windows firewall off most of the ports the games use are blocked. My question is are there any programs that will fix this or better yet is there any boot disc that I can start my computer with (something linux based) that will make my computer a pass through using my wireless card and lan card? Then when Im done pop the disk out, reboot, and start windows normally? Both cards are Realtek based, the wireless is an rtl8180 and the lan is a rtl8139c. Any ideas.

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Luna Negra Danza Teatro comes to South Jersey on Friday, May 1, 2009 to perform at The Stockton Performing Arts Center. The Jersey Shore’s Center for the Performing Arts, is located on the campus of The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.
Irresistible and brilliant, the Luna Negra Danza Teatro creates and performs contemporary dance by Latino choreographers. Celebrate an evening of breathtaking dance with the Luna Negra Danza Teatro at the Stockton Performing Arts Center on Friday, May 1st.

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Things they got right:
1) The emotional impact of Ragnaros. I was in a pretty hardcore raid guild when I started on my server, and I still remember seeing him explode out of the lava for the first time. I was awed and terrified at the same time, and I remember remarking in guild chat, “Oh, there’s no way in HELL.” Ragnaros has always been the most memorable raid boss to me, and Blizzard just hasn’t been able to duplicate that feeling with any of the “final boss” encounters since. Not even Nefarian made me feel how Ragnaros did.
2) Wintergrasp. Despite the bugs and lag issues we all experienced, this PVP zone has been one of the most fun places I’ve ever spent my time. I love the vehicle combat, I love jumping into a cannon and laying down some ground fire… it’s been a great run. The only thing that sucks is when you’re on a server where the Alliance population is so far above the Horde’s… I’ve never even seen a Tenacity buff. I couldn’t tell you what it’s like to have 40000 hitpoints and hit for 7500 on a white crit, but I can tell you what it feels like to be hit by that truck.
3) Death Knight starting area. I’m telling you, that is the coolest quest string I’ve ever seen. The best part about it is that you start off evil – you get to really see what the Death Knights are capable of – and you work your way toward redemption. The whole thing is compounded by the continual whispers you get from Arthas while you’re running around doing dirty deeds, and it’s just a really deep, immersive quest series. The only real problem I had with it is that it was just too easy to regain the trust of your faction – I’m sorry, but if you’re going to play a Death Knight, you shouldn’t automatically have your reputation all better just because you talked to Varian or Thrall or whoever. There should have been more quests to link the redemption together a little better. The way it is now, it’s too abrupt, and takes away from the experience.
Things they got wrong:
1) Arenas. When they were first implemented, it was too easy to exploit the system, and the people who enjoyed PVP in that way (myself included) who didn’t want to cheat ended up getting steamrolled by people who were good, but just looking for easy wins. It didn’t encourage those players to “get better” as the elitist PVPers would say, instead it just pissed us off and made us not want to participate. When Blizzard added huge rating requirements to the later gear sets, it made it even worse. Even casual PVPers would love to have a set of epic gear for the Battlegrounds, but the gap is impossibly wide when it’s not available, so even decked out in the crafted gear, you’d get steamrolled. It’s no surprise that the turnout for Season 5 was ridiculously low. Fortunately for the casual PVPers, though, the Wintergrasp bosses drop the epic gear, so it’s still possible to gear up, it just takes a lot more time. It works better that way.
2) Pre-BC Naxxramas. It was an awesome instance, and fun to test the waters in, but with an expansion so close on its heels, they should have just left it alone. I’m glad they revived it for Wrath; a lot of the people in my guild weren’t able to see Blackwing Lair let alone Naxxramas.
3) Alterac Valley. Let me preface this one by saying I love Alterac Valley – I’ve spent so many hours in that place on so many different characters, at one point, I had six toons that were exalted with the Stormpike. It was an incredible battleground during its implementation, and people really fought hard in order to win; so hard, in fact, that one of the longest AV battles on my server lasted for over 36 hours.
The problem with AV is in the design, and the proof of it lies in how many changes were made to the whole thing from inception to what it is now.

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Detecting Diabetes Without a Needle: The Research promoting a painless new method for detecting diabetes, utilizing saliva, will be revealed Friday, May 15, at the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) 18th Annual Meeting Clinical Congress in Houston, Texas.
While searching for biomarkers that may indicate diabetes, doctors examined the saliva of 40 different patients.

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Sen. Collins, a centrist with allies in both parties, was called to the White House Wednesday to meet with Mr. Obama. She envisions holding the cost of the stimulus package to $700 billion or less, well below the $819 billion package of tax cuts and spending the House approved last week.
The target grew out of discussions among a group of moderate Republicans, led by Sen. Collins, aimed at reining in costs and better targeting federal funds toward job creation. The effort amounts to the Obama package, according to an individual familiar with the talks. The package would include tax cuts and investments intended to create jobs, such as infrastructure projects, but it would step back from spending projects that dont immediately lift the sagging U.S. economy.
After meeting with Mr. Obama, Sen. Collins expressed concern about a number of spending provisions, including $780 million for pandemic-flu preparedness. I have no doubt that the president is willing to negotiate in good faith, that he wants to have a bipartisan bill, Sen. Collins said.

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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is telling his department and agency chiefs to look for ways to cut $100 million out of the federal budget. That would represent just a fraction of one percent of last months deficit alone. Hes holding his first formal Cabinet meeting today. Later, hell visit CIA headquarters and discuss the agencys importance to national security. (Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.

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ASH welcomed the above-inflation increase in tobacco tax announced in today’s Budget.
The tax rise will help reduce smoking by encouraging current smokers to quit and dissuading young people from starting. However, ASH urged the Government to re-double its efforts to curb tobacco smuggling to stop the illegal trade undermining a sound tax policy.
ASH had also called for an overhaul of the current tax system that allows tobacco companies to deduct marketing costs as legitimate business expenses, thus reducing their liability for corporation tax.

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Welcome to Montana Health Insurance. This site will allow you to take a look at health insurance companies in Montana. Its important to know about health insurance in Montana so that you can make the decisions that are right for you. Please feel free to browse around the site to get information and then below you can get a Montana health insurance quote.
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Health Care For All strongly supports reform of our health payment system. Our current system, built on a foundation of fragmented fee-for-service payments, does not promote high-value and high-quality care. We support an all-payer reform that rewards accessible, coordinated, patient-centered care that focuses on health and disease prevention. Payment methodologies should favor primary and preventive care, encourage collaboration among providers and include accountability for patient health. Payment systems must also take into account the role of public health, and the special health care requirements of those with particular needs, such as the disabled, those chronically ill, immigrants, low and moderate income people, seniors and children.
We ask that the Commission take into consideration the following points in formulating its recommendations:
1. Transparency. The payment system must be totally transparent. Measures of care and incentives built into payment system must be open, transparent, and understandable by patients, such that each patient can see how these incentives are related to him or herself. Consumers must have access to their own medical records. Transparency must take into account linguistic capacity and cultural awareness.
2. Phased-in approach to bundled/global payments. We believe that over time, payments should cover larger bundles of services in both time and number of providers. An immediate first step is to decrease payments for potentially preventable hospital complications and potentially preventable hospital readmissions.
Vulnerable consumers need to be protected. We must guard against any structure that would incentivize providers to avoid high risk or chronically ill patients. Any risk adjustment should include provisions for socio-economic status and other social factors affecting care. We need proven systems in place that achieve real care coordination.
3. Patient activation and empowerment. A number of patient activation and patient empowerment methods have been shown to lead to better health outcomes, reduced disparities, and better satisfaction with one’s health care, as well as reduced costs. Models such as chronic disease self-management, ideal medical practices, and others should be promoted by a payment system that supports medical homes and other patient-centered practice arrangements. Measurably and systematically increasing patient empowerment is key to improving quality and stabilizing health care costs
4. Value-based benefit designs that support prevention and primary care. We support benefit designs that reduce or eliminate cost sharing for cost-effective preventive services and primary care. We oppose tiering arrangements and high-deductible plans that place inappropriate burdens on consumers who are not equipped to understand or accept the risks these plans impose on patients.
5. Support the role of public health through the payment system. Public health concerns must be integrated with the payment system. Patient education by community health workers and others should be accounted for in payment models. Payers should contribute to cost-effective public health interventions that improve the health of the general population.

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