Word: oxford
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...have fuelled a big increase in the number of obese children; levels of childhood obesity in Europe have increased from between 5% and 10% 25 years ago to as much as 25% in some countries today. It may also contribute to bad behavior and learning difficulties. A study by Oxford University's department of physiology published in this month's issue of the U.S. journal Pediatrics found that underachieving British children's reading and spelling abilities were dramatically improved when their diets were supplemented with fish oils containing omega-3 fatty acids - essential for brain development but missing from modern...
...typical New England drizzle had me running along Oxford Street before I set foot inside the labyrinthine Museum of Comparative Zoology. The museum is quite a world unto itself, with its desolate corridors, dusty books, and distressing posters of magnified frogs. Wandering, I soon found the Professor of Icthyology, who bid me into his office, where I was to sit my Indonesian language placement exam...
Feldstein was torn between his interests in economics and medicine throughout his undergraduate career. After college, he was accepted to Harvard Medical School, but decided to postpone his enrollment after he received a full-ride scholarship to attend Oxford University...
After earning his doctorate in economics at Oxford, Feldstein crossed the Atlantic to assume a professorship at Harvard while he was still in his late twenties...
...Someone e-mailed me from Oxford saying he was going to put a card in an 11th-century manuscript,” he said...