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...Nodir Adilov of Indiana University-Purdue were also undeterred by the fact that there are no reliable large-scale data on the viewing habits of kids ages 1 to 3 - the period when symptoms of autism are typically identified. They turned instead to what most scientists would consider wildly indirect measures: cable subscription data (reasoning that as more houses were wired for cable, more young kids were watching) and rainfall patterns (other research has correlated TV viewing with rainy weather...
...this case, blood. While some of the administration’s actions conformed to this principle—shutting down Afghanistan’s terrorist camps through military force and initiating intelligence reform—a sense of self-importance led the administration to embark on a very indirect, inefficient, and decades-long campaign to rid the world of despotic governments and radical Islam and install democratic regimes where either is found...
...club's president Fernando Zozaya says the mayor's plan to seize the land is unrealistic because it would cause a traffic nightmare and would have a negative affect on the 11,000 club members and direct and indirect employees. He also points out, with an ironic chuckle, that the city proposes to raze an institution that the federal government last year declared as part of the national patrimony in recognition of its historic value...
...existing locks, and they would have massive water-recycling basins, which preclude the need to dig new reservoirs, which many had feared would displace thousands of farms and homes. The project would create as many as 7,000 direct jobs and more than 40,000 indirect jobs at home. Companies such as Bechtel, ABB and the French contractor Bouygues are expected to bid for the project...
...scientists that overweight and obesity are diseases, other people can see that it's quite possible to be healthy, happy and large. "Perhaps," they write, "even without the benefit of a scientific education, people sense that the pathways that lead from overweight and obesity to premature death are extremely indirect ... that food should be enjoyed, not agonized over. Perhaps they see that, given the health challenges that currently face different parts of the world, describing entire Western populations as sick seems a bit of a stretch." Perhaps what most needs letting out is not the pants of the average Jack...