Word: gainful
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...worrying that their children were growing abnormally. “I’d recommend that mothers not necessarily worry,” she said. “These are questions for the pediatrician to determine.” The main implication of this study is that rapid weight gains early in life are significant and are associated with later obesity, according to Sheryl L. Rifas-Shiman, a research associate at Harvard Medical School and one of the article’s authors. “[Early life] might be a critical period that health professionals and researchers should focus...
...What happens with the most interesting works of art, I think, is that you start with a sense of deception, of half-knowledge, preferably with the deck stacked against your protagonist, and then in the course of whatever you’re watching or hearing, you gain a greater, deeper understanding of who that person is.”Toback, like his subject, has something of a bad reputation. Associated in Hollywood with drug cults, hustlers, and gangsters, he makes no attempt to hide his own vices. His first feature film was called “The Gambler?...
...composer Mason Bates. He hopes the project will demonstrate how important the genre is to people of different ages, nationalities, backgrounds and professions - and that performers will learn how to use the Internet and YouTube to better market themselves, just as budding writers can blog to gain publicity...
...Nick races with a new ferocity down the field. He sees plays seconds before everyone else, easily weaving himself between players and never rushing to the ball unless he is sure he can gain complete control of it. When Nick sees the need to stand back, he does; he doesn’t focus on where the ball is now but where it’s going...
...another new twist, Paras also told the New Paper he may return to Nepal and participate in electoral politics, heading up a party of "young professionals and bankers." But it seems unlikely the deeply unpopular 37-year-old - an embodiment, for many, of royal excess - would gain much from such a venture. "That's what everyone in Nepal is laughing about," says Kunda Dixit, editor of the Nepali Times, a Kathmandu-based weekly. "It's remarkable how quickly people here have otherwise forgotten the monarchy," he says...