Word: inheritence
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...second study supported the idea that people inherit physiological traits that predispose them to obesity. A group led by Physiologist Susan B. Roberts of Tufts University studied 18 infants during their first year of life: six of their mothers were thin; twelve were overweight. Roberts and her colleagues measured how many calories the babies took in and how many they burned off. By three months of age, six of the babies with overweight mothers were generating 21% less energy than the rest. At one year, the six had become overweight, although they ate no more than the thinner babies...
...polisher of his city's image, Klein is full of rosy facts and rousing figures about the Games. Some 80,000 visitors will jam the hotels, and every event should be close to a sellout. The Canadian organizers expect to turn a $23 million profit. In addition, Calgary will inherit state-of-the-art facilities, such as the $31 million indoor speed- skating oval and the ski jumps and bobsled and luge runs at nearby Canada Olympic Park...
...along with expanded possiblities, mainstage groups like the Ui gang inherit difficulties. The need to fill the theater's space, the difficulty of organizing so many instruments and people, and the fact that mainstage productions draw a different and much larger crowd can be inhibiting...
...hard to rate the candidates solely on the basis of particular policy stances. None of them can predict the precise nature of the mess that he would inherit in 1989. Nor is there any one set of clear answers on what to do about the hideously complex results of years of economic blindness. To judge the candidates' potential as economic leaders, it is necessary to examine their mastery of financial complexities, their candor in facing economic reality and their credibility in light of their record...
...live in Plains, Ga. "You may be from the country," she said. "But I'm not." (She went to boarding school instead.) On a lighter note, the Carters write that one of the "positive things about losing the election" was that they were able to let Ronald Reagan "inherit Menachem Begin and Sam Donaldson...