Word: gainful
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...Nicholas Christakis of Harvard Medical School considered the possibility - and were surprised. For one thing, geographic distance between friends in the study seemed to have no impact: friends who lived a 5-hour drive apart and saw each other infrequently were just as influenced by each other's weight gains as those who lived close enough to share weekly take-out meals or pick-up basketball games. The best proof that friendship caused the weight gain, says Fowler, is that people were much more likely to pattern their own behavior on the actions of people they considered friends...
...Rowling makes a more subtle point, it's this. Throughout the series Harry has had to confront and forgive an apparently endless series of fathers and father-figures. It's a wise child that truly knows his father, and Harry has had to gain that wisdom again and again. Learning about and accepting James's and Sirius's flaws - their arrogance, their cruelty towards Snape - was a crucial part of growing up for Harry, and in Deathly Hallows he must go through the process again, with a father-figure more important than his actual father, namely Dumbledore himself...
...list of things I expected to gain a deeper understanding of in Buenos Aires this summer, American history ranked only slightly below sane driving techniques. But as I’ve learned boldly attempting to cross streets, expectations don’t mean much in this city...
...effort to strengthen relationships between faculty members and student groups, each group will now only need one adviser, instead of two, to gain official recognition, said Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd...
...clubs won’t have to seek out an additional faculty member to gain official recognition and will instead be able to work more closely with just one Harvard-affiliated adviser...