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...Pediatrics has called for its members to go beyond their routine tracking of height and weight. Pediatricians are being urged to identify children most at risk for obesity (taking into account birth weight, family history, ethnicity, socioeconomic status and other factors), then carefully track their body mass index--a ratio of weight to height--and watch for significant changes from year to year. Early intervention is key: University of Buffalo researchers have found that 86% of all obese children get that way before...
...convention. At one point a black angel was seen in discussion with two white angels on the proper construction of a truss to support the wings. The Con has a weirdly sublimated sexual atmosphere. Tight and/or revealing outfits were not uncommon for both women and men. Actually the ratio of women seemed higher than one would expect. I would guess the number at around one third. It's easy to be contemptuous of the dorky characters that show up, but you must always remember: you're there...
Students crowd around the lunch tables, usually joined by one or two teachers. The student-to-faculty ratio at Summerbridge is a little over two to one, and each teacher serves as an adviser to two students...
...clean in many areas, it benefits from the world's largest diamond trade. But, as with even Africa's prosperous nations, the picture is mixed. AIDS is rampant in the Texas-sized country. Of the roughly 1.7 million residents, nearly 40% are infected, which is the world's worst ratio. Quoting former President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia who called the disease the continent's "deadliest enemy,"Bush promised that "the first thing I wanted the leadership in Africa to know is the American people care deeply about the pandemic that sweeps across this continent...
...does not think the smaller population will hurt the program, since it improves the faculty-student ratio...