Word: girth
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hollow ache of lost possibilities. Kevin Buchberger, a former Little League star, had to jettison his dreams of playing pro baseball. One patient returned to a favorite fishing hole -- and found an apartment building. Women who have missed the chance to have children stare sadly at the enlarged girth of counselor Kathy Sinkiewicz, pregnant with her second child. Patients eventually have to confront and if necessary "mourn" these losses, says Sinkiewicz. Dancing at a belated high school prom was part of that process, but only the first of many intricate steps back toward life...
Impulsively, I joined her in embracing the massive trunk. Even with our arms encircling its wonderful girth, our fingertips barely touched...
...park outside, a courtroom guard smokes. His girth betrays a career of inactivity; his eyes, nose, and mouth are adrift in an ocean of flesh. He says, "In that building, there are no secrets. If some judge is balling the secretary, everyone knows...
These conjectures about the corpus callosum have been hard to prove because the structure's girth varies dramatically with both age and health. Studies of autopsied material are of little use because brain tissue undergoes such dramatic changes in the hours after death. Neuroanatomist Laura Allen and neuroendocrinologist Roger Gorski of UCLA decided to try to circumvent some of these problems by obtaining brain scans from live, apparently healthy people. In their investigation of 146 subjects, published in April, they confirmed that parts of the corpus callosum were up to 23% wider in women than in men. They also measured...
...plans. A new survey by the Calorie Control Council shows that 60% of adult Americans who use diet products say they are not dieting, a reverse from a similar survey in 1986. Formal weight-loss programs now make a point of discussing improvements in health as well as decreasing girth. There are also lessons in realism. "We spend a lot of time working on the concept that managing this weight is going to be difficult," says Betsy Taylor of Health Extenders, a diet program in Norwalk, Conn. "Dieters realize how impossible it would be to keep those tiny bodies after...