Word: spare
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Nowadays, you don't have love handles, puppy fat or a spare tire-you're overweight or obese. And obesity is a disease. That's the term of choice, anyway, for health authorities such as the Australasian Society for the Study of Obesity, which says obesity "is a complex and multifactorial disease." But obesity-defined as a BMI of 30 or greater-is no more a disease than is cigarette smoking or sedentary living. People can be obese but healthy, just as they can be thin and sick. "It really doesn't make sense to call obesity a disease...
Most innovative is the first room of the exhibit, a CSI-inspired forensics lab complete with spare body parts left over from the manufacture of the Washington models, joined by a short film about how the models were made. Think of it as the ultimate museum label. Instead of a simple placard that reads something like WASHINGTON ATOP A STUFFED HORSE, the new Mount Vernon center will use its CSI room to grab visitors with a narrative backstory about the displays they...
...Casta?o's men led us past the kitchen, where the farmer and his family were commandeered to cook for the surprise guests. They looked scared; even in Colombia it isn't every day that a death squad shows up for dinner. Casta?o was upstairs in a spare room with a desk and a few chairs. The mystery woman was just leaving the room. She was smiling, slyly grateful. Casta?o shook our hands, forcefully. He was short, a foot smaller than his bodyguards, but they obeyed him as if he were a minor god as he snapped out orders...
...squalor in an abandoned farmhouse had reigned over the very real-life affairs of Cosa Nostra's billion-dollar business of drug trafficking, high finance and cold-blooded murder. Provenzano, who had been sentenced to life in absentia for a series of high-profile murders, had opted for the spare existence in order to keep the lowest possible profile as he tried to stay one step ahead of Italy's biggest Mafia manhunt ever...
...aren't convinced that ACT's technique does not harm the embryo. The procedure, which is based on pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, a test commonly done when couples at IVF clinics are concerned about passing on genetic diseases such as cystic fibrosis and Duchenne muscular dystrophy, is supposed to spare the embryo after a single cell is removed. But since the test has only been used widely since the 1990s, it's not absolutely clear that taking one cell out of the embryo has no effect on normal development of the implanted embryos...