On Saturday, the Wall Street Journal pointed out that the Social Security trust fund includes trillions in securities, representing past surpluses plus interest.

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And research in adults as linked poor emotional wellbeing with higher levels of cardiovascular disease, the researchers pointed out in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.

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Ian Bremmer and Nouriel Roubini, respectively president of the Eurasia Group and a professor at New York University, pointed out in The Wall Street Journal last week that 39 of the 42 Chinese companies listed among the Fortune 500 are state-owned, and three-quarters of China's 100 largest publicly traded companies are state-controlled.

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Life insurance companies are going even further with their digital surveillance and data-mining, as pointed out recently by the Wall Street Journal.

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As David Biderman pointed out in a fascinating article in the Wall Street Journal in 2010, although the typical NFL game lasts more than three hours, only 6 percent of the total eleven minutes is actually spent playing with the ball and attempting to move it forward.

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And as Kelly Crow pointed out in her excellent market survey in the Wall Street Journal , collectors are willing splurge on masterpieces right now, but not much else.

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In a commentary published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine, Sedrakyan and two co-authors pointed out those studies must run at least eight years to return the information FDA is seeking.

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The Journal noted that Gates mentioned this lack of funding, and in particular pointed his finger at the paucity of government financial support.

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