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However, when compared to other developing nations such as India--whose people have a life expectancy in the low 50s--China has had "some sort of success" in feeding its people, Eberstadt said...
...With fixed sex ratios, sometimes a man would have a relatively low lottery number, but would be turned down even though there was room left in his first-choice House," Dingman said. "That meant a woman who did not want to live in that
...dramatic decrease" in the size of the gas bubble "is cause for optimism," Denton said, adding that radiation levels in the vicinity of the reactor were low and confined to a small area...
Similarly, scientists have found that a low level of the neurotransmitter serotonin may be linked to insomnia. Researchers have been experimenting with tryptophan, the chemical from which the body makes serotonin. Only a small dose of tryptophan-which is found in many foods, notably milk-seems to ease the insomniac to sleep...
Rent control advocates say that while the city's rent control board may not be giving landlords enough return on their investment, phasing out rent control would be disastrous to the city's low and moderate income tenants...