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Word: asianness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...total optical market in Germany grew 3.2% in 2008, Fielmann's sales jumped 7%, according to the Central Association of German Opticians. Total net profit soared 39% to $163 million. Company officials attribute the results to the company's size. Fielmann sources frames in bulk, from both cheap Asian manufacturers and designer brands, keeping costs low. Indeed, Fielmann's expansive mood shows that farsightedness can be a virtue: you can envision the day when the recession will end, and be ready to cash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Storm Riders | 6/15/2009 | See Source »

...director of the Sleep Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, gathered sleep data on nearly 30,000 children up to 3 years old in 17 countries - among them, some that were predominately Caucasian (including the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia and New Zealand) and others that were predominately Asian (such as China, Thailand, Malaysia, Japan and Korea). In the U.S. and other mostly Caucasian countries, Mindell found that only 12% of parents reported bed-sharing, and 22% reported room-sharing. But in Asian countries the numbers were much higher: fully 65% of parents shared beds with their infants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advice for Coddling Parents: Put Baby to Bed Alone | 6/13/2009 | See Source »

Mindell is careful to emphasize that while her research, which was funded by Johnson & Johnson, does not support co-sleeping, it doesn't absolutely condemn it either. One question that remains: if vast numbers of babies in Asian populations are sleeping less than their Western peers - without any apparently society-wide disadvantage - does it truly matter if babies co-sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advice for Coddling Parents: Put Baby to Bed Alone | 6/13/2009 | See Source »

...Asian babies need less sleep?" Mindell wonders, adding that understanding how some infants thrive on less sleep is the next step in research: "to figure out why that is, and what's the consequence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advice for Coddling Parents: Put Baby to Bed Alone | 6/13/2009 | See Source »

National Review •Sotomayor is depicted on cover of as - because to these morons anyone non-white is interchangeably other - an Asian-eyed Buddha...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Preposterous Week! Paul Slansky's News Index | 6/12/2009 | See Source »

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