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...about 60 mi (100 km) northeast of New Orleans. This is a small town - maybe the population is about 20,000 - and the study was started in the early 1970s, primarily by Dr. Gerald Berenson. We examined all the children in this town for lipids, blood pressure, weight and height, skin-fold thicknesses, smoking, alcohol consumption - anything we thought might be related to heart disease in adulthood. Of those children, the ones who had a body mass index (or BMI, a ratio of weight to height that's commonly used to define overweight) in the 95th percentile or higher when...
...institution’s humanitarian principles, in fact, that many members of the Harvard community correctly cite the discriminatory policy as the most compelling reason to continue prohibiting ROTC on Harvard’s campus. ROTC was banned from this end of Cambridge several decades ago, during the height of campus dissent over Vietnam. Our sense of tolerance for political ideologies has hopefully evolved since that time, but certainly our tolerance for gay students has only grown rightly stronger. Therefore, while it is unfortunate for individuals in our Harvard community to be so inconvenienced from not having a ROTC program...
...height of his popularity, Lee helped lead half a million marchers through the streets of Hong Kong on July 1, 2003, forcing pro-Beijing lawmakers to abandon a controversial anti-subversion bill. Since then however, the number of marchers in the annual protest has steadily dwindled. Lee doesn't seem worried. "When there's a good reason again, they?ll come out," he says. "Never discount Hong Kong people's enthusiasm...
Children were also measured for body mass index, a ratio of weight to height that is used as an indicator of health risks...
...said. Despite the hype surrounding “Sarah Marshall,” Segel, a Los Angeles native, remains relaxed and approachable. At over six feet tall, he’s like the big goofy friend everyone loved growing up. “I’ve been this height since I was twelve,” he said. “Kids used to stand around me in a circle and chant ‘Ride the Oaf, Ride the Oaf,’ but even then I thought that that was hilarious… I guess I just...