Now again, why a guy can go on or off the ballot from one year to the next, we can spend another segment on that.

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But in January, despite the Swans struggling to score goals, he was allowed to leave to go on loan at Blackpool, one of the club's play-off rivals.

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But the most common ones kill off only about one fly in 20, leaving plenty of survivors to go on the rampage.

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One melanoma patient who had tumors clogging her lungs was able to go off oxygen within weeks of starting on the drug.

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Across Switzerland, roughly 70% of addicts stay in the programme for at least 18 months, and 16% go on either to a scheme that uses methadone as a heroin substitute, or to one that weans users off drugs altogether.

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