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...entire phenomenon might even be working on a more telescoped time frame. Some scientists have suggested that the womb of a mother who is malnourished during pregnancy may simulate "famine-like" conditions for the fetus. That may "predispose the baby to hoard nutrients," explains Paul Zimmet, professor of diabetes at Monash University. "Those changes persist in adult life and are reflected in obesity or diabetes...
...intend such modesty to be disarming, but the runaway scale of the Kos phenomenon can make it seem disingenuous. Not only are the site and the upcoming convention named after him, but many of the individual contributors have also sought to launch their own blogs using the Kos moniker. Moulitsas is now attempting to protect his identity with a trademark. "Would you call a site ?Texas Michael Moore?? ?Boston Chomsky?? That?s MY NAME." Variations on it - not protected legally, one assumes - abound. Yearly Kos participants raised funds by selling a book about the "Kosmos," and contributors to the site...
Luckily for Black, Tenacious D became a cult phenomenon on HBO, which led to his getting cast in High Fidelity ("The first time I had any real power in a film performance," he says, crediting director Stephen Frears). When The School of Rock followed and made him one of a handful of people who might actually be able to carry a movie, Black moved forward with his plan to make movies fun. Nacho Libre is the first production by Black and White's Black & White Films--"and it's kind of a model of what we want to do," says...
...This is a phenomenon that has become common among many of the multinational forces," he said. "No respect for citizens, smashing civilian cars and killing on a suspicion or a hunch. It's unacceptable." Iraqis saw in al-Maliki's outburst a bid to counter the perception that he is Washington's stooge. "Maybe he feels he needs to show he doesn't take orders from the American embassy," says Mithal Alussi, one of the few members of Parliament not aligned with any of the power blocs in al-Maliki's national-unity government...
...however, was through increased enrollment of public high school graduates, which Pierskalla says included himself, his roommate, and most people he knew at Harvard.PEER PREDICAMENTSHarvard’s fiscal growth, which financed the financial aid programs that allowed for these demographic changes in the student body, was not a phenomenon common to the University’s peer institutions.The Crimson reported in October of 1958 that both Princeton and Yale Universities faced deficits of over a million dollars for the 1954-55 academic year.The deficits occurred in spite of $150 tuition hikes at both schools in 1952 and a successful...