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...establish thresholds for all food-related allergens. For instance, when it comes to gluten, the general consensus is that any concentration below 20 parts per million is too small to have a harmful effect, so new regulations would not require manufacturers to label foods that contain less than that cutoff...
...truth is, for a small segment of the population, even exhaustive clinical and psychological tests will never guarantee a conclusive answer about their sex. According to Vilain, it's basically impossible to come up with a "universal cutoff" to determine females from males. "That's what we're struggling with," he says. "There is no one biological parameter for sex. It's a complicated combination of parameters...
...work. Right now, both a 98 percent and 93 average still merit the same letter grade, though achieving the former is markedly harder and reflects a much deeper understanding of the course material. It is unfair for students to be penalized for being a few points below the A cutoff and yet not be rewarded for being above this cutoff, and we already tacitly acknowledge this by having the full range...
This child, like Gray's son, had difficulty finding a weight-loss program for which he wasn't over the cutoff weight. Gray's lawyer, Grant Varner, says she had been unable to find any programs in South Carolina that could handle her son. Even programs dealing with morbidly obese kids reportedly told her that he was beyond their maximum weight. (See the video "Heavy Mexico...
...Committee, the treatment of the Irish by the British government. There were fraying newspapers mentioning old national champions. There was even a form sent by the secretary of the Debate Council, in 1947, to other universities for the purpose of organizing the next year’s debates. The cutoff slip at the bottom, to be sent back quickly to Wigglesworth G-32, had a space to write in the name of the person who was answering the letter. It had the word “Mr.” followed by a blank line...