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Hispanic and African American mothers were more likely to be overweight when pregnant, and their children more likely to be born small, gain excess weight over time, get less sleep, and begin eating solid food sooner, the researchers found...
...fact already exists in the form of globalization. The only difference is that, with globalization, activity at the microscopic level can have macroscopic ramifications if left unchecked. President Obama should emphasize increased globalization. By making people more interdependent and creating more linked fate communities across the globe, greed and excess on the part of bankers, laxity in regulation by governments, and poor financial decisions on the part of home buyers will be disincentivized, as individual interests will be secondary to group interests. The world as we know it will move toward greater cooperation and consensus and the buck will finally...
General Motors' efforts to sell Hummer to a little-known Chinese company have fallen apart, the U.S. automaker announced on Wednesday. As a result, GM will begin to dismantle a brand of gas-guzzling SUVs that was synonymous with pre-financial crisis wealth and excess...
...combination of patience and skill to score fast and stay on the pitch long enough to get to 200. Only one other time in the past 10 years has a batsman gotten to 190. In a career spanning 21 years, Tendulkar himself had just three scores in excess of 150 before today's feat. The closest he had scored was 186, against New Zealand in 1999. (See a sped-up U.S. version of the sport: call it Cricket...
...popular theories to the contrary. And he probably didn't suffer from a long list of diseases that experts have speculated about, including, as the report lists them (deep breath), "Marfan syndrome, Wilson-Turner X-linked mental retardation syndrome, Fröhlich syndrome, Klinefelter syndrome, androgen insensitivity syndrome, aromatase excess syndrome in conjunction with sagittal craniosynostosis syndrome or Antley-Bixler syndrome or a variant form." (See the top 10 scientific discoveries...