Word: explained
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...When we started...our focus was really on the fires,” Evans said. “As we went on, we realized that while the fires did lead to deaths, they did not explain the bulk of the effect on mortality rates...
...umbilical cords are meant to comfort anxious parents, they can backfire. "Now we get phone calls that are like, 'I saw my kid on your website, but he wasn't smiling. Is everything O.K.?'" says Richard Moss, who has run Camp Lenox in Massachusetts for 20 years. That may explain the recent surge in full-family camps, where kids and parents go hiking and sit around the campfire together. The number of these programs registered with the American Camp Association has jumped, from 192 in 1991 to 552 today. Pass the s'mores...
...CNOOC, is the driving force behind its controversial takeover bid for U.S. oil giant Unocal. A fluent English speaker with a degree in petroleum engineering from the University of Southern California (he's currently a few courses shy of an M.B.A.), Fu met with TIME recently in Beijing to explain why a merger should make sense to Unocal, Washington and his own shareholders...
...some of Unocal's U.S. assets before allowing this deal to proceed, would you agree? Fu: We will address any concerns that [Washington] has. If it's necessary to divest some assets, we would do that, but we are not at that stage yet. We will do everything to explain who we are and why we want to acquire Unocal. We're a transparent company, and this is a good deal for Unocal's shareholders and its employees. That's where I think the focus should...
...same time, the phenomenon is essentially non-existent among black students in primarily black schools, as well as among black students attending private schools. Fryer noted that other factors—such as under-funding, differences in teaching quality, and disparities in parent-teacher interaction—probably explain the differences in overall performance among the nation’s schools...