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...study, which was published in last week’s New England Journal of Medicine, found that a mutual friend becoming obese correlated with a 171 percent increase in the probability of obesity in the other friend...
...they considered friends - but the relationship didn't work in the other direction. If you had named another person as a friend, and your friend became obese, than you were more than 50% more likely to get fat too. But if your friend had not named you as a mutual friend, and you became obese, it would have no significant impact on your friend's weight...
...Still, the two sides did agree to create a security committee to address some of the issues raised, and there's every likelihood that such meetings will continue. But their agenda, by mutual consent, will studiously avoid the fundamental strategic conflicts between the U.S. and Iran over Tehran's regional ambitions and its drive to attain the capacity to build nuclear weapons...
...High heels are good because they really lengthen you out"--did not win over all viewers. The show, sniffed the New York Times, "tests the American market's seemingly insatiable demand for rich, idiotic It girls." But the real point of the Beckhams' arrival is that it solidifies the mutual love affair between British celebs...
...money managers at Dodge & Cox have heard the adage that a camel is a horse designed by committee. They politely disagree. Their horse, you see, keeps winning. Each of the firm's four mutual funds has from nine to 18 portfolio managers, and every one gets equal say in which stocks and bonds to buy and sell. "The investment business is permeated with the lore of the individual. We think that's a bad way to manage money," says CEO John Gunn, one of many decision makers. "There are a zillion independent variables, and it's very hard...