Pro-life activists must unhappily confront the probability that many of the leading candidates for the GOP nomination in 2012 - while all professedly pro-life - in reality neither care very much nor think very much about the abortion issue.
One of the challenges with this style of study is that it is difficult to account for every aspect of life which might affect the probability of developing autism, such as family history.
"Statistics prove that there is a much greater probability of individuals continuing to exercise throughout their life if they start at an early age, " she said.
Florida's statute-suggested living will, for example, directs life-prolonging treatments to be stopped if there is "no reasonable medical probability" of recovery from a terminal condition or persistent vegetative state.
While lying in a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanner, 19 volunteers were presented with a series of negative life events, such as being robbed or developing cancer, and asked to estimate the probability that this event would happen to them in the future.
Term life involves a calculation on the part of the brilliant number crunchers called actuaries to determine the probability of your passing away in an established period of time.