Word: onset
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...Slam-Dunk Contest. Or I should say, should have won the NBA Slam-Dunk Contest. I don’t want to go into all of the details now, suffice it to say that it didn’t help that the debacle coincided with the onset of World...
...annual event starts today with a panel discussion including Emme, a well-known “plus-size” model, who will discuss how stereotypes propogated by the entertainment industry can contribute to the onset of eating disorders in some people...
...second hour). Not knowing how to take care of a baby, Dawson asks his neighbor (Diane Wiest) for parenting advice. Dawson’s shortcomings—he has the mental capacity of a seven-year-old—are played for laughs at the movie’s onset (he fastens Lucy’s diaper with large pin-on buttons), but it soon becomes evident that Sam’s mental incapacity threatens Lucy’s development. Social Services intervene and put Lucy into foster care on Lucy’s seventh birthday...
...part by the epidemic rates of childhood obesity. Overweight children are more than twice as likely to have high blood pressure or heart disease as children of normal weight. Even more alarming is the number of children with Type 2, or non-insulin-dependent, diabetes. Once known as adult-onset diabetes--before so many children started getting it--Type 2 diabetes puts kids at risk for very adult ailments, including blindness, nerve damage, kidney failure and cardiovascular disease...
Three decades ago flying was considered the pleasant privilege of those who could afford it. Then, with the onset of deregulation, it devolved into an endurance contest. Flying may yet become a privilege again, but for an entirely different reason. Americans might be forced to trade some privacy to fly. "For aviation, it is imperative that we focus more thoroughly on individual people as potential security threats and not just on things like carry-ons and checked baggage," says Carol Hallett, head of the Air Transport Association, the industry's trade group...