"These initial findings are very encouraging and echo our own results and our conclusion that the impact of urban heat islands on the overall global temperature is minimal, " Jones said in a statement.

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"These results support the conclusion that bighead and silver carp have not yet become established in Minnesota, " said Steve Hirsch, director of the Ecological and Waters Division for the Department of Natural Resources.

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We care about results in sports, and if we care half as much about results in schools and in hospitals we may reach the same conclusion.

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Dr Yokota (and also Drs Lundeen and Steinberg) managed to observe them without looking, as it were, by not gathering enough information from any one interaction to draw a conclusion, and then pooling these partial results so that the total became meaningful.

ECONOMIST: Physics and philosophy

The payment-by-results system will show up inefficiencies in the system and, if carried to its logical conclusion, will lead to hospital closures and mergers.

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Scott Burgess, a columnist for The Detroit News, takes a look at what lies beneath these impressive results, coming to the (perhaps obvious) conclusion that Americans like both good deals and trucks.

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Based on the detailed results of his polling (carried out by Populus and YouGov), Lord Ashcroft's conclusion is that the Tory leadership failed to talk about the things that mattered to people and deluded itself about the party's real prospects.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot

The results of another study of children who spent two weeks playing with the latest toys and games, backed up the conclusion that if anything, parents should spend less on toys.

BBC: Furbies in wilderness at Christmas

Mr. Kurlantzick theorizes about what happened without coming to a firm conclusion, though the CIA is criticized for not releasing the results of the investigation it apparently conducted, and a hint of foul play is left hanging in the air.

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