Word: affections
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...label, obesity has reached crisis levels in the United States. Perhaps most alarmingly, 12.5 million children are overweight, putting them at an increased risk for a host of diseases in adulthood, including diabetes, coronary heart disease, high blood pressure, and certain forms of cancer. These risks do not affect personal health alone—the costs of obesity to the U.S. economy have been estimated at over a hundred billion dollars...
...consider that the United States is mistaken, protectionist and clearly violating the treaty," Mexico's Economy Secretary, Gerardo Ruiz Mateos, told a news conference on March 16. "To decide to protect their own transport sector, they have decided to affect the competitiveness of our countries and of the region, impacting many other productive sectors." (Read a story about the new world sprouting on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico frontier...
...federal deadline) as well as the environment. But this process, which included a workshop held last week, is still in the early stages and is focused mainly on the Mojave and Colorado deserts, where other future solar plants would go. As such, it remains unclear how this process will affect the Carrisa Plains, especially with the pressure building for the 2010 deadline...
...slapstick is every bit as effective as it was three years ago. The difference here is the increasingly somber tone of the plot. The “Little Miss Sunshine” pageant threatened a young girl’s self-image, but these characters’ decisions affect their entire futures. “Sunshine Cleaning” evokes less laughs and perhaps more reflection than its counterpart, but the somber moments are more affecting, and ultimately more relatable. What the new “Sunshine” has that the old lacks is, quite simply, Norah. Brash...
...causes excessive daytime sleepiness and irregular nighttime breathing. Because of its role in increasing drowsiness, the disorder—which is expected to affect approximately 2.4 to 3.9 million licensed commercial drivers in the United States, according to a Harvard press release—can increase the risk of vehicular accident...