Word: sucks
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...pumping mothers may be protected, he says, since the pump simulates a baby's suck and stimulates the flow of milk. Still, since lactation has a lot to do with the mother's direct hormonal response to her child, for some women, Gallup says, pumps may not be as efficient as the real thing. "When you just have a relationship with a pump instead of with a baby, the milk supply can dwindle because the mother may not be secreting the hormone oxytocin that aids in a mother's milk letdown," he says. For those mothers, he suggests staying near...
...seem too much like I have a chip on my shoulder (though it’s getting harder to hide that), but my SAT’s beat about 70% of Harvard students’ SAT’s. So suck it, Harvard...
...sort of telling people to believe in optimism. That, yes, the nerd can get the babe, and the jock can have a heart, deep down. The reason his movies are uplifting is because they're really honest about the elements of his characters' lives that do kind of suck, so that at the end, when they finally get their happy ending, it feels so richly deserved...
...involving enriched CO2 levels were indeed a reasonable if rough proxy of what would likely happen in the real world as CO2 levels mount. Whether the forests' growth spurt might actually impact global warming by absorbing and storing more carbon is doubtful. While it's true that more trees suck up more carbon, they also produce more dark, heat-absorbing foliage, which somewhat counteracts the benefit. In addition, one extra tree per acre per year doesn't make much of a dent in the atmospheric carbon load, not to mention that it's still unknown what the effect would...
...fall through the ice, you will die. The current will suck you under. And the extremely cold water will quickly immobilize you physically (and mentally) such that it is nearly impossible to pull yourself up and out even if you manage to not get sucked under right away...