Word: papered
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...with great detail. I had a single packet of ketchup with my eggs the other morning and 4 oz. (113 g) of green-tea-flavored frozen yogurt with my daughter two days before that. I started the diary because I wanted to test the striking new results of a paper published in the August issue of American Journal of Preventive Medicine. Scientists at several clinical-research centers in the U.S. found that dieters who kept a food diary lost twice as much weight as those who didn...
...elementary school, but that by high school the boys were overtaking the girls. Why? Because somewhere along the way, girls stopped taking math and never learned the skills required to do well on standardized tests. Today, girls are increasingly sticking with math classes through school - according to the paper, girls and boys take advanced math in high school in equal numbers, and women receive nearly half of all bachelor degrees given in math in the U.S. - and their scores are closing the gap. But "the stereotype that boys are better at math is alive and strong," Hyde says. "Parents still...
...teamwork before the big game? Megan is desperate to get into Notre Dame, where her father and siblings have gone, but she courts suspension with nasty pranks: promiscuously e-mailing a topless photo of another girl and making catty calls to her; wreathing a rival's car in toilet paper, then spray-painting a penis and the word fag on his window. She's quite the cutup...
...state governments to improve voting technology since 2002, a new study by New York University researchers says poor ballot designs have confounded hundreds of thousands of voters in recent elections. The study noted some drawbacks of touchscreen voting systems, which can fail to indicate unregistered votes and sometimes lack paper trails for verification--flaws that have prompted many precincts to replace the terminals with optically scanned ballots. With more than 15 million Americans casting votes in counties with new ballot systems in place this year, it's likely that some confusion will persist come fall...
...After his Sderot trip, Obama is expected to don a yarmulke in Jerusalem on Wednesday night and visit the Western Wall, Judaism's most holy site. Many Jews believe that a prayer written on a scrap of paper and placed in the cracks of the ancient wall will be answered, and Obama is unlikely to resist the opportunity to solicit a celestial bump for his election campaign. This may lead to a predicament for the Almighty, since Senator McCain, made a similar pilgrimage to the Western Wall several months ago. The candidates may not win divine intercession, but both...