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Betting on a Champion's Failure Kieren Fallon seemed to have the horse race all sewn up: he was 10 lengths ahead of second favorite Ballinger Ridge with less than half the distance to go in the March 2 betdirect.co.uk Median Auction Maiden Stakes. Then, to the astonishment of the punters at Lingfield Park, the six-time British champion jockey glanced over his shoulder and appeared to ease up - and the 8-11 favorite Rye passed him on the line. What had happened? The Sunday tabloid News of the World published a story alleging Fallon had predicted to its undercover...
...means trying to imply that replacing organized sports is as easy as simply finding other ways to stay active. In addition to the athletic aspect, sports serve as one of the few sources of competition in our lives that doesn’t involve the median and curve of our Ec 10 hourly exam. They often also provide us with a close-knit group of teammates as buddies, thereby eliminating the strain of having to form friendships using only our stereotypically limited social abilities as Harvard students...
...Gilda Cobb-Hunter, a social worker and state representative from rural Orangeburg, S.C. "Black people have the same worries that white people do: Will I have a job, will my kids go to a decent school, and can I afford to get sick?" But in South Carolina, where the median income for blacks is $14,750--about half that of whites--and where almost half the school districts are suing the state for not adequately funding a basic public education, black voters also want some recognition of their special needs...
Female heads of households (without a partner or spouse) could use a financial leg up, according to a new study from the Consumer Federation of America and Catharine P. Montalto, a professor at Ohio State University. The report showed that these women on average have one-half the median income and one-third the net worth of other household heads. As a result, says Stephen Brobeck, director of the Consumer Federation of America, many of them are likely to live on the edge of solvency. Women in these situations need financial guidance so that they don't miss...
...team decided to use 27 as the minimum BMI cutoff to define overweight because 27 is the median BMI for overweight people, said HMS Assistant Professor of Medicine Frank B. Hu, the senior author of the NHS study...