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...very different” than studying as an undergraduate, he said, adding that life as a graduate student “can be a sort of abyss of freedom...
...Life expectancy disparities among people of different socio-economic, geographic, and racial backgrounds can be explained by different modifiable habits and health issues, researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health reported last month...
...study cited smoking, high blood pressure, obesity, and high glucose levels as the principal agents contributing to discrepancies in life expectancy and mortality from cardiovascular diseases and cancers within these different groups, which were dubbed the “Eight Americas...
Smoking is a “modifiable” factor with the largest impact on an individual’s longevity. The habit subtracts 2.5 years from men’s life expectancies and 1.5 years from women’s, according to the study, which was led by Goodarz Danaei, a research fellow at the school’s department of epidemiology...
Aleksei Levshin, a 19th-century Russian traveler, wrote sneeringly that the "Kirghiz manner of life is a living picture of the age of the Patriarchs... they live almost solely for their herds." Heavy-handed Tsarist and eventually Soviet rule saw the migration of a significant population of Russians as well as the dilution of Kyrgyz culture. New tree-lined urban centers like Bishkek as well as spas along the land's salt lakes became popular destinations for Russians escaping the industrial grimness further north. As in elsewhere in Central Asia, Cyrillic is the adopted script and vodka shops abound...