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...which also happens to increase a woman's odds of having an abortion). But the researchers behind the JECH study, which evaluated just over 45,000 single-child live births from 1959 to 1966, were able to adjust for an impressive array of confounding variables, including race, age, weight, height, marital status, occupation, the number of prenatal visits, the number of previous children, smoking and drinking habits, drug habits, infant gender and both parents' education levels...
Charbonneau, who first arrived at Harvard in 2004, succeeded Hernquist at the height of the course’s popularity...
...condemning irresponsible spending. After all, in most cases, students are financially dependent on their parents, and probably have little say in how their parents spend. No matter what parents make, if they prefer cars and flat screen televisions to paying tuition, that may only be reflected in the total height of the mountain of loans their child accrues—something Harvard should try to prevent at all cost. And there are many “legitimate” reasons why people with a median upper-middle class income might not have liquid assets, including reoccurring medical bills...
...risk increased not only with weight, but also with age. At seven, a girl of average height and weight (about 4 ft., 52 lbs.) had a 4.6 % chance of developing coronary heart disease in adulthood; the risk for that same girl, 10 lbs. heavier, jumped to 4.8%. At age 13, a healthy girl (5 ft. 2 in., 101 lbs.) had a 4.6% chance of developing heart disease as an adult, but at a higher BMI - the equivalent of adding about 28 lbs. - her risk of heart disease spiked to 5.7%. That amounts to an overall 24% higher risk of developing...
...true then we very much feel that we have been the victims in a large scam," the brothers said in a statement. They added their "rollercoaster of emotion" since Saturday, when their father strolled into a police station in central London, has taken them "from the height of elation at finding him alive to the depths of despair at the recent stories of fraud and these latest pictures." The statement also said they "want no further contact" with their parents...