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When Felitti first presented his Kaiser Permanente data connecting obesity with child molestation at a national meeting on obesity in 1990, most colleagues dismissed him immediately (one even claimed that obese people made up such stories to justify their "failed lives"). David Williamson, an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), was the lone exception. He said that a large epidemiological study was needed to determine whether there were any implications of Felitti's findings for public health...
...body to store more fat in preparation for the next bout of scarcity. Today, of course, the same response to stress would result in obesity. This theory of a thrifty fat-storing system that kicks in under high levels of early stress was originally proposed by British physician David Barker. (See pictures from an X-ray studio...
...There’s no question that the banks have a lot of power, but I think David might beat Goliath this time," she wrote...
...attorneys who brought the case, led by former U.S. Solicitor General Theodore Olson and famed litigator David Boies, are confident their timing is right. "We consulted and researched in depth," Olson wrote in an e-mail to TIME. "We concluded that we had/have a reasonable chance of success. Our clients were made fully aware of the risks and chose to go forward. For them, the status quo is already failure. We had every reason to believe that someone was going to bring this case in any event - without the resources or experience that we can assemble. The State Attorney General...
FlyBy was relegated to chatting it up with the Club President David E. Treworgy MBA '93 and Radcliffe Affairs VP Irene Wu '91, who giddily broke down the organizational structure of the HAA. To be honest, it was actually pretty enjoyable. Better than hearing about how much better it was when the undergraduate Houses had real personalities (and when Adams had a pool). As FlyBy told our tax lawyer, a Matherite: They still find a way to make students love their Houses. Somehow...