Pill packages have active pills (with hormones) and placebo pills (no hormones). The number of placebo pills can vary depending on the type of pill used. Your menstrual period should occur during the placebo pills due to lack of hormones. You are still protected from pregnancy during the placebo pills.
Making the Case against the biting midge: evidence is building that the biting midge, Culicoides sonorensis, is a vector of vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV), which causes significant economic losses in cattle, horses, and swine.
At issue is the value of a statistical life, or VSL, an accounting technique used across the government to weigh the benefits of life-saving regulations. Different agencies use different estimates. U.S. EPA puts it at $8 million in today's dollars, while the Department of Transportation bumped up its standard figure to $6 million in 2009.