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In fact, when we use all these things, what we've found is that, in some cases, energy use in a building can drop as much as 90 percent.
When these heartbreaking images of oiled birds finally began to emerge from the Gulf of Mexico last year during the horrific BP oil spill, a German biologist by the name of Silvia Gaus was quoted as saying, "We should just euthanize all oiled birds, because studies have shown that fewer than one percent of them survive after being released."
After half a million hours of grueling volunteer labor, more than 90 percent of those oiled penguins were successfully returned to the wild.
Armed with this knowledge, SANCCOB has a chick-bolstering project, and every year, they rescue and raise abandoned chicks, and they have a very impressive, 80 percent success rate.
So we can relax the criterion a bit and say: How many positions do we find where 95 percent of people in Africa have one variant, 95 percent another variant, and the number of that is 12.
It means that when we look at people and see a person from Africa and a person from Europe or Asia, we cannot, for a single position in the genome with 100 percent accuracy, predict what the person would carry.
And only for 12 positions can we hope to be 95 percent right.
And this then, in conjunction with these methods that allow very many DNA molecules to be sequenced very rapidly, allowed us last year to present the first version of the Neanderthal genome, so that any one of you can now look on the Internet, on the Neanderthal genome, or at least on the 55 percent of it that we've been able to reconstruct so far.
So that today, the people living outside Africa have about two and a half percent of their DNA from Neanderthals.
They would lose 40 percent of their land and be surrounded, so they would lose free access to the rest of the West Bank.
LC: I think it's 100 percent.
And then you draw the conclusion the odds of winning the lottery are 100 percent.
It turns out even during the Cultural Revolution, China out-perfomed India in terms of GDP growth by an average of about 2.2 percent every year in terms of per capita GDP.
The adult literacy rate in China is 77 percent as compared with 48 percent in India.
60 to 80 percent of the workforce in China is women in the coastal part of the country, whereas in India, it's all men.
And in fact, a World Bank survey revealed that 30 to 70 percent of assets owned by medical organizations in Africa are actually owned by faith-based organizations, but that there's very little collaboration between the faith community and public health-care systems.
One positive example is from Ghana, where the Ghana Catholic Health Service partnered with a range of stakeholders and was able to realize a 31 percent reduction in mortality.
In fact, there's one lab in particular that represents 20 percent of all that capacity: It's called the Beijing Genomics Institute.
If you have this deleterious mutation in this gene, you're 90 percent likely to get cancer in your life.
OK, so experts think that one to three percent of you are not actually the father of your child.
And on a factual basis, over 80 percent of the U.S.'s most popular shows are exported around the world.
19 percent of the world's population today, Westerners own two-thirds of its wealth.
That's 12 percent of all the books that have ever been published.
In fact, the HIV prevalence rate is 1.3 percent among adults.
And due to the poor infrastructure, only 25 percent of those are receiving the life-saving drugs that they need.
It's not surprising, because only three percent of people in the DRC use condoms.
In fact, in the area where she comes from, more than 90 percent of the Tasmanian devil population has already died of this disease.
And it may be that passing the 50 percent urban point is an economic tipping point.
In fact, 76 percent of all of the trials that were done on this drug were withheld from doctors and patients.
He found that it didn't really matter if the percent-done indicator was giving you the accurate percent done.
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