Word: outgrow
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...gambling in college may be a function of risk-taking that occurs in youth, which many people outgrow,” says Labrie, one of four authors who analyzed data from a 2001 national study of college student gambling habits conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health. “It may have something to do with development of the brain—the superego, the part that makes decisions, grows a little more slowly...
...Door, Vanderslice combines and recombines these elements to find distinct directions for his sad-sack male songwriter’s backing band to explore. The result is meticulously beautiful. But over each unique instrumental backdrop comes that same mono-stylistic voice that Vanderslice can’t seem to outgrow. His intensely sincere, melodic moan pushes already overwrought lyrics to a point that will have many a cooler-than-thou music snob reaching for the volume knob. But truth is, Vanderslice cannot be faulted for over-dramatizing his material. With topics that include ground-level narratives from...
...desperate clutch. Holding is good, and floating free is bad--a lesson that's not so much learned after birth as preloaded at the factory. In fact, doctors have long known that babies who aren't held simply fail to thrive. Not surprisingly, it's a need we never outgrow. In one way or another, we spend the rest of our lives in a sort of sustained Moro clinch...
...wires entirely, that may be an option for smaller firms. Gartner's Fiering says she expects significant growth in corporate wireless networks to come from small companies that use wi-fi to avoid altogether the expensive investment in cabling. That allows them to move offices quickly when they outgrow them or when their rent goes...
Until recently, most doctors believed that peanut allergies, which affect some 1.5 million Americans and can be deadly, were a lifelong affliction. Now it turns out that some people outgrow them. As part of an ongoing study of peanut intolerance, Johns Hopkins researchers gave 80 allergic children a "peanut challenge"--that is, they made them eat peanuts. More than half the kids passed the test, suffering none of the common allergy symptoms, such as hives, vomiting or swelling of the face and lips. The study, published in this month's Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, looked at children with...