Word: appellation
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...that the brutal conditions aboard slave ships crossing the Atlantic served as a sort of adaptive choke point, selecting for people with a tendency to retain salt and water. This allowed them to survive the murderous journey without succumbing to thirst but predisposed their descendants to hypertension. Dr. Lawrence Appel of the Johns Hopkins University School of Med-icine believes that modern-day African Americans do process sodium a bit differently from whites and may even have a less reactive renin-angiotensin system...
...survive in spite of it. Even with a combined $55 billion in annual sales, Sears and Kmart will be just one-fifth the size of Wal-Mart, which "is so overwhelming in terms of market share, logistics and efficiency that going up against them would be futile," as Michael Appel, managing director of Quest Turnaround Advisers, puts...
...play of the second. In dribbling the University players showed some improvement, but there was still a tendency to run out of bounds. The line-up: FIRST TEAM. SECOND TEAM. Broun, r.f. l.f., Kempner Quigley, l.f. r.f., Brooks Amberg, c. c., Miles Griffiths, r.g. l.g.,Goode Burnham, l.g. r.g., Appel...
Sarah B. Levit-Shore ’04 and Julia B. Appel ’04 also earned honorable mentions for the Women’s Leadership Award...
...Appel said her future plans include working in the nonprofit sector, focusing on the Jewish community, affordable housing, community development and women’s rights...