Word: slight
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That's a question more and more people have begun to ask, and lately they have been getting some answers they like. The explosive reaction in the press in April to a research report suggesting that Americans who are a bit overweight had a ("slight") reduction in the risk of dying over the course of the study compared with those of normal weight brightened the mood in buffet lines everywhere. Not surprisingly, the public largely overlooked the study's more important point--that obesity still cuts lives short. But even as the public seized on the slim hope that there...
...strip of parked cars or vegetation to shield pedestrians from traffic. Reid Ewing, associate professor of urban studies at the University of Maryland, believes we may be seeing the first fruits of those efforts. After steadily declining for decades, the number of trips Americans made by walking showed a slight uptick in 2001, from 7% of all trips to 9%, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics...
Those who stayed behind contended with typical Boston chill wind and rain at the Geiger Trophy, hosted by MIT. The regatta put sailors in four divisions launching Flying Juniors, Rhodes-19s, and single- and double-handed Tech dinghies. Harvard’s compliment finished sixth of six, a slight four points behind...
...Crimson calmly entered the Mass. Ave. Bridge at a slight disadvantage, with Yale still up half a length and Princeton almost a length behind both boats. Then at 1,200 meters down, the Crimson grew tired of the first real deficit it had faced since an opening weekend loss to Georgetown...
...battle on Saturday morning, but it was Princeton who kept pace with the Crimson for the race’s first 1,000 meters. The Tigers jumped out of the start and took an early two-seat advantage over both Yale and Harvard, and the Bulldogs also maintained a slight advantage over the Crimson. For the first 200 meters, all three boats were locked in a push for first place, with all three bow balls pushing forward in a fight for position. By 300 meters down, both Yale and Princeton sat four seats up on Harvard...