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...report, published last year in the New England Journal of Medicine, went further, comparing the medical records of 276,835 Danish citizens born between 1930 and 1976. In that data, scientists found a direct and linear correlation between a higher childhood weight and a greater chance of future heart disease. "Our study shows that even a few excess pounds can damage future health," says co-author Dr. Jennifer Baker of the Center for Health and Society at the Institute of Preventive Medicine in Copenhagen...
...teach at 1 [p.m.],” said Samit Dasgupta, an assistant professor of mathematics, who co-teaches Mathematics 21b: " Linear Algebra and Differential Equations." “I don’t know if class is canceled...
...human mind with (most of) its disorder and associative tendencies, and still drag a story out of it—though, at times, Kennedy exposes her narrative manipulations, clustering beloved ones’ deaths suspiciously close together or violating the mind’s logic by planting too-linear sequences of thought in Day’s brain.Virtually flawless, however, is Kennedy’s rich language and the even richer character who takes life from it. Kennedy writes like a smoother T.C. Boyle, her Britishisms landing softer on the ear than the American slang Boyle bandies about...
...dolls more available for admiration. But viewers’ appreciation then becomes centered more on the technique and artistry of the photographs themselves, rather than the beauty of the traditions and culture represented in the carvings. Ducharme’s work also renders viewers far more susceptible to a linear understanding of the beliefs surrounding the dolls. Rather than leaving the artistic merits of the Hopi dolls to the interpretation of the outsider, who draws his own conclusions from a piece based largely on personal sentiment, Ducharme acts as a sort of middleman. By presenting Hopi art through the medium...
...McCain himself, he wisely does not try to explain his victory in linear narratives. The morning of the primary, wearing the same green sweater and staying in the same room as in 2000, he explained his own strategy for the day: "There is no superstition I won't indulge," he said. "I believe in luck...