Word: somewhat
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...depends somewhat on the definition of childhood overweight and obesity, and it also depends on the age of the child. For example, an overweight or obese adolescent is much more likely to become an obese adult than is an overweight one-year-old. But even down to the youngest ages that I've worked with, age five, overweight five-year-olds maybe have a tenfold increased risk of becoming obese adults compared to relatively thin five-year-olds...
...oldest subjects in the study now, who were examined as children, are about 45. Still, there have been probably at least a dozen studies that have been able to do this around the world. Many studies have been conducted in England, but in all honesty the results have been somewhat conflicting. Some studies found a slightly increased risk of cardiovascular disease. Some studies - but not all of them - have found an increased risk of mortality. I think, though, that part of the reason for these discrepancies is that to obtain results from these long-term longitudinal studies, many have...
Adam Melech is from California, but his temporal home, today, is the Galilee town of Safed, home to stoners and Sufis and people like himself-somewhat ecstatic Hasidic mystics. Separating himself from the whisky-fueled merriment all around, he takes me aside to share something important: "See this wedding?" says Adam, gesturing to the gathered crowd. "This is like Bill and Fleur's wedding...
...minority students feel so quickly pulled from the larger Harvard community. A number of them remember their early contact with the College as somewhat amorphous. For their introduction to Harvard, race, age, sex, and socioeconomic status bled together into a nebulous search for friends...
...while it was undoubtedly a good night for Clinton, her opponent could take comfort in the results as well. Six weeks ago, when both candidates turned their attention to this contest, Obama had just gotten thumped in Ohio, a state with an open primary and demographics that are actually somewhat friendlier (younger, more black) for him than Pennsylvania. Obama trailed Clinton by an average of 18 points in Pennsylvania polls at the time. And that was before the toughest six weeks he has endured thus far in the campaign, before Jeremiah Wright and the Tony Rezko trial, before "bitter...