During the campaign, the now-Vice President-elect, Joe Biden, warned that the world would test his running mate early in his presidency.

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"This is the first time we have been able to state that administration of the vaccine is going to have an effect on cervical cancer, " says Eliav Barr, the Merck official who is running the program to test the vaccine in 25, 000 patients.

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The long-running legal row began in February 2011 when police decided to test the Lidl store by sending a 16-year-old to attempt to buy alcohol.

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