The Falcons launched a breathtaking 70m attack only to turn the ball over again close to the Gloucester line, and Wilkinson missed a simple penalty to compound their woes.

BBC: Newcastle 13-20 Gloucester

Four families live in the Quezon City compound -- and they share just one line.

CNN: BUSY SIGNALS

It has not had a new drug approved since October 2000, and its last colon cancer compound, UFT, spent years in the FDA waiting line before being rejected.

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To compound matters, the launch date fostered the perception that the line was unaffordable.

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All these have a survivorship bias: investments mentioned at dinner parties, stocks charted in Value Line, entrepreneurs featured in FORBES, stock market histories (does your data set include the --100% compound annual return on Russia over the past century?), available hedge fund performance numbers and every mutual fund ad.

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