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...ritual of naemul is an outgrowth of the Confucian grounding upon which Korean society is based. Just ask any Korean or Korean-American about the New Year's Day custom of parents, grandparents, uncles, aunts and other adults handing out envelopes of money to children, who respond with a long, ceremonious bow and a wish of good blessings. Because of this fundamental grounding, naemul in one form or another has penetrated almost every other aspect of Korean society...
While the study only reported a statistical correlation, Wishnow cited the relationship between fat and the level of hormones in the blood as an outgrowth of the study which might require further investigation...
...about intimate things too, but they at least come across as friends who might really confide in one another. Maybe because they are, in a sense, all variations on the same person. The series (created by Seinfeld with writer Larry David) is, like several other new-generation sitcoms, an outgrowth of stand-up comedy material. Episodes spin off the sort of trivial incidents and observations that Seinfeld dwells on in his monologues. (Jerry feels guilty over a gift pen; Jerry's girlfriend thinks he picks his nose...
...greatest flaws of other taxonomic systems is that they consider pre-meds a group unto themselves. Most pre-meds are DF's. Specifically, they are the ones who carry the multi-colored clicker pens (an outgrowth of their general fastidiousness), and who say that they want to become doctors "to help people." They'll tell you that they don't mind the idea of socialized medicine, and they might even mean...
First, the Harvard Republican Action Council (HRAC) was not a reaction to last Tuesday's vote of the Harvard-Radcliffe Republican Club (HRRC), but rather the outgrowth of an unfulfilled need on this campus. HRAC is a club conceived on the principle of political activism. The HRRC debates policy and philosophizes over what it means to be Republican; the founders of HRAC want to stop talking, and start doing...