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...There?s more obesity in women than in men, and women live longer and generally less active lives than men. Prototypic jobs for women are less active than those traditionally assigned to men. This inactivity puts women at a greater risk for obesity, which is often a direct precursor to diabetes...
...what? Well, it complicates matters, suggesting that gradual cultural exchange has played a quiet but constant role in human history - and that invasions aren't necessarily all they have been cracked up to be. Thirty years ago the dominant theory was that the precursor of the Indo-European languages came to Europe on the tongues of warrior horsemen from the Pontic steppes of present-day Ukraine, and that the broad dispersal of those languages across the Continent was a tribute to their martial success. Then in 1987 Renfrew made a powerful case that it was the Neolithic farmers who brought...
...audience and then directed a comment to the pre-frosh: “If you don’t think we are the most talented student body at Harvard, then you’ll think we are the most sexually frustrated!” This unusual start was the precursor to a night of laughs and great music...
...survivors also said Williams should have been aware of a unique seismic pattern known as a tornillo, which had been suggested as a precursor of Galeras eruptions and which, in fact, showed up on monitoring equipment the morning of the fatal field trip. Williams says no one brought it to his attention and none of the other indicators showed anything abnormal...
...Studies Center, is also the author of the forthcoming book "Thicker Than Blood: How Racial Statistics Lie." Monday, Zuberi told TIME.com that he sees the 2000 census results not as an accurate indicator of our country at large, but rather as a call to action - and, Zuberi hopes, a precursor to a conversation about the real meaning of race, ethnicity and political power in America...