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Romney, by contrast, appeared before a Rotary Club on Monday with a PowerPoint presentation on his economic policy. It is relentlessly detailed, almost claustrophobic in its proportion of charts to text. The subject matter is not especially unusual for a Republican: cut government spending, cut taxes, be more competitive in...
The second, larger study in the NEJM came to similar conclusions. By comparing the childhood medical records and adulthood hospital records of 276,835 Danish citizens born between 1930 and 1976, researchers found a distinct correlation between higher childhood body mass index (BMI) - the ratio between height and weight that...
Of course, big families never really disappeared. Immigrants tend to have more kids, as do Mormons, some Catholics and a growing cadre of fundamentalist Christians. But in the U.S. today, the average number of children per mom is about 2, compared with 2.5 in the 1970s. While 34.3% of married...
Whether you want nuclear power or a nuclear bomb, you start off with the same basic material: uranium. In both civilian and military nuclear programs, mined uranium is converted into a gas and then enriched in centrifuges to increase the proportion of U-235--the uranium atoms that start and...
Many members of the Class of 2010 who had for months carefully considered their choice of concentration were in for a rude surprise last week when they sought out the final signatures necessary to declare their concentration. Just days before the deadline to file a plan of study, the economics...