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Curves, that is. The model's figure keeps shrinking to new lows, so ahead of Milan's Fashion Week next month, Italy banned from its runways any body mass index under 18.5. Spain imposed similar restrictions, and Brazil--where a model died from anorexia--is also considering a ban. Here, a look at the shifting shape of the female fashion mannequin...
...determining the league winner is to see who plays the best throughout the season, as Bilski correctly points out. If Penn or Princeton wins the league, only to be knocked out in a first round upset in the conference tournament, it is highly unlikely that their Ratings Percentage Index (RPI) score would be strong enough to get them an at-large berth in the NCAAs...
...achievement benchmarks to an “apartheid educational system,” the benchmarks system has been revised and achievement gaps between minority and white students have narrowed, according to a district report released at a school committee meeting last night. The state now uses the Composite Performance Index (CPI), which measures, on a 100-point scale, how close the district has come to attaining proficiency for all students. When the president of the NAACP Cambridge chapter, Kathy A. Reddick, raised her concerns at a February school committee meeting, the school system compared minority groups’ performance...
...report, published in the Nov. 27 Archives of Internal Medicine and headed by Karin B. Michels, associate professor of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive biology at HMS and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, explored the link between body mass index (BMI) and premenopausal breast cancer...
Michels and her colleagues examined over 113,000 participants from 1989 to 2003 and found that a higher index correlated with a lower probability of premenopausal breast cancer...