Besides bringing new species to the textbooks - and relegating them immediately to the "extinct" category - the study sheds new light on the extinction event, widely thought to have been caused by an enormous asteroid impact at the end of the Cretaceous period, about 65.5 million years ago.
The Washington Institute study argues, however, that -- in the event the U.S. proceeds to station troops in the Golan despite the risks -- some steps could be taken that would minimize the dangers to U.S. policy and to American troops.
With the small absolute event numbers and lack of a comparator arm in the study (only 7% of patient-days were on placebo), we view the move in the shares as an overreaction.