Word: slothfulness
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Difficulty Level: Are you kidding me? Physical Activity Level: Sloth Drunk Factor...
...some movement, like fidgeting or changing body positions, but is that enough to explain the difference? The study's authors propose several other possible explanations. For instance, beyond the complete inactivity involved with TV-viewing - which alone raises the risk of high blood pressure - children may be compounding their sloth by eating junk food. "A full bag of chips or a plate of hot dogs can disappear a lot more quickly while watching TV than they might at any other occasion," says Ludwig. And the types of foods that children are likely to be eating in front of the tube...
...since the movie is being released in 3-D, it's a more expensive anything. It is the third in a series of stories revolving around a mammoth named Manny (Ray Romano) and his friends Diego the saber-toothed cat (Denis Leary) and Sid (John Leguizamo). Sid is a sloth, although a parent undereducated in the Ice Age franchise could be forgiven for spending the first half-hour of the movie mystified as to what this ugly thing is supposed to be. In a sitcom, which is really what Dawn of the Dinosaurs most resembles, Sid would be the obnoxious...
...impending arrival of the baby mammoth, but he copes with his insecurities by "adopting" three eggs he finds in an ice cave. They hatch and are revealed to each be a T. rex, whose mother soon finds and retrieves them in a neat mouthful, which includes Sid. The sloth's absence hardly seems like reason to take on the dinosaurs. Their possum friends sum it up nicely with this exchange: "I don't even like Sid." "Who does? He's an idiot." Nonetheless, they all go after...
...video technology and online news sources has engendered a profound sense of nostalgia—not entirely unjustified—lamenting the disintegration of our national discourse into one of soundbytes and an American youth plagued by generational ADD. After observing a teenager’s impatience with the sloth of text messaging, comedian Louis CK commented wryly, “Your message is going to space. Give it a second.” Moreover, our vocabulary has come to reflect the speed at which our words are spoken and sent: Since we “obvi” don?...