Insurance works because it includes mostly people who will never need it, many who need a little, and a few who will need much.

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However, H1N1 turned out to be a very mild flu: many people experienced little more than a few days of sniffles, much like a common cold.

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"There are few areas of Norwegian democracy today where so many know so little about so much as is the case with Norwegian European policy, " he says.

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