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...decide to sue you?" I said, "Well, if you sue me, you're going to have to borrow $25,000 from me to hire an attorney. And I'm not going to loan it to you." So that pretty much nipped that in the bud. That's a normal conversation day with my father...
...Wang, preventive-health experts at Brigham conducted the first long-term study of women's drinking habits and weight gain. The study involved 19,220 women over the age of 38 who were of normal weight. Researchers asked the women about their alcohol consumption over the past year and recorded how much of four different types of alcoholic beverages they consumed - beer, red wine, white wine and liquor. The researchers measured the average ethanol content of each beverage and then calculated each volunteer's average alcohol intake; they also weighed each woman five times over the course of the follow...
...other words, for some strange reason, many affluent students seem to be under the impression that by acting as “normal,” impecunious students, they will get more out of the collegiate experience while simultaneously making everyone else around them more comfortable. But hiding the extent of one’s privilege is hardly a means of experiencing “what it’s like” downstairs, and pretending as though certain affordable luxuries are just too expensive isn’t exactly considerate—it’s insulting...
Davis raced outside her normal distance, but managed a fourth-place finish in the 800-meter race with a time of 2:09.17. Hill—right at home at the 800 distance—won the same event...
...Chinese military analysts have explained the rapid spending increase as normal for a large nation climbing out of decades of poverty. "Although China now has a growing military demand, it has always upheld the principle of peaceful development. The double-digit increases in the past should be interpreted as compensational growth," says Zhao Zongjiu, deputy secretary-in-general at Shanghai Institute for International Strategic Studies, a government-backed think tank. "I predict that, given the current policy environment, the growth rate of military expenses will remain roughly on the same level as China's GDP growth in the next...