Word: supplementation
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...this special supplement to TIME magazine, we take an in-depth look at global millennial consumers, from thobe-wearing MTV producers in Dubai to Hermès Birkin-toting jewelry designers in Beijing. Suffice it to say, this generation doesn't feel that it needs to "earn" luxury. Yachts, vacation homes and tech gadgets are all on its proverbial "to do" list...
...infants, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) currently recommends a supplement of 200 I.U. of vitamin D per day, starting at two months of age for breastfed babies. Once infants are weaned to vitamin-D fortified formula, however, supplements are no longer necessary...
According to The Economist, there are two reasons for the rise: Asians and ethanol. Firstly, rising wealth levels in Asia have led to higher spending power, and Asians are increasingly choosing to supplement their traditionally cheap, rice-based diets with more expensively produced meat. But the second cause of skyrocketing demand for basic foodstuffs is America’s most recent renewable energy craze: ethanol...
...methods are obsolete, and there's a dearth of courses taught in English, the lingua franca of international education and commerce. "Japan's schools are third-rate by international standards," says Robert Dujarric, director of Temple University's Institute of Contemporary Japanese Studies. In the 2007 Times Higher Education Supplement, an influential U.K.-based annual survey of universities all over the world, only four Japanese universities ranked in the top 100, compared with 37 from the U.S. and 19 from the U.K. "If your aim is a Nobel Prize in chemistry," Dujarric says, "you don't come to Japan...
...sure that could happen anymore," chuckles the individual, a churchgoing Evangelical named Joel Kilpatrick, 35. His five-year-old site, a kind of Christian version of the satirical newspaper the Onion, is now recognized as a healthy supplement in an irony-poor culture. Even Zondervan grudgingly admits that the Bible item was "in the spirit of legitimate satire." Rick Warren (WARREN TO BUY SAINTS, BUILD PURPOSE-DRIVEN FIELD) e-mails Lark items to his flock and says, "If you can't laugh at yourself, you have a pride problem. These guys are the best...