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hi all At 20:44 1999/06/18 -0500, phil wrote, in part: >Ken, Janet, and other Listfriends, > >In the reply to Janet that I was mentally composing I was going to >say that differences in emphasis in the two reports of same facts, >evident right from the beginning in the titles "Fetal cells ease >life for Parkinson's patients" vs. "Fetal Cell Therapy Benefits Some >Parkinson's Patients, First Controlled Clinical Trial Shows Mixed >Results", give us quite different impressions, that a home town... well, heck, i knew that the articles had different 'spins' on them...! i just dug right down into 'the facts ma'am just the facts' in all my digging and posting of news articles and medical studies i've noticed all sorts of little 'tricks 'n' techniques' including very simple ones e.g. stating numbers in numerical characters, vs spelled out words "more than fifty percent of the..." vs "more than 50% of the..." the first time i noticed this one, the writers kept switching back and forth between the two formats almost as if they were trying to muddy the waters and make comparisons more difficult or almost as if they were trying to obscure and obfuscate the facts in a obviously obstreporous manner janet janet paterson 52 now / 41 dx / 37 onset PO Box 171 Almonte Ontario K0A 1A0 Canada a new voice http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Village/6263/ [log in to unmask]