Word: developable
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While the coaches wish to protect Adu and allow him to develop his game at a relatively slow pace, fans and critics have already begun clamoring to see him play immediately in order to determine if he is truly capable of leading the United States to a World Cup title in 2006, as hoped by American soccer enthusiasts...
...launched last week in New York City and goes nationwide Feb. 15. Based on the Zone diet (40% carbohydrates, 30% protein and 30% fat), ZoneChefs Kids home-delivers three child-friendly balanced meals and two snacks for $29 a day. Says Dr. Alan Salem, a pediatrician who helped develop ZoneChefs Kids: "We are teaching children to make healthy choices." Others disagree. "Kids don't need to diet," says Dr. Arthur Davidson, chairman of the board of the American Society of Bariatric Physicians. "To take weight off kids, all you have to do is take the sugar out of their meals...
...recent years, a number of psychologists and sociologists have joined the chorus of religious and political opponents in warning about the impact of pervasive pornography. They argue that porn is transforming sexuality and relationships--for the worse. Experts say men who frequently view porn may develop unrealistic expectations of women's appearance and behavior, have difficulty forming and sustaining relationships and feeling sexually satisfied. Fueled by a combination of access, anonymity and affordability, online porn has catapulted overall pornography consumption--bringing in new viewers, encouraging more use from existing fans and escalating consumers from soft-core to harder-core material...
Babies who are 6 months old or younger face a risk when given antibiotics for the first time. A Detroit study found that such infants were 1 1/2 times as likely to develop allergies and twice as likely to develop asthma as babies who didn't take the drugs. But exposure to dander from two or more household pets seems to reduce these risks...
Expanding waistlines continue to feed the epidemic. Doctors hope that by shifting their attention to prediabetes--a condition that significantly increases the risk of Type 2 diabetes, the most common form of the illness--they can reduce the number of folks who develop full-blown diabetes and such devastating complications as heart and kidney trouble, strokes and blindness...