Word: thinning
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...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...
...don’t you take off that dress?”He looked down at her with his penetrating green gaze. Without pausing to think, Felicity raised her hand and slapped him hard across the face. He didn’t move. Her diamond ring had left a thin scratch across his cheekbone. With complete control, The Stable Boy grabbed her wrists and pushed her against the wall, her arms above her head.Her chest strained against the wet, almost transparent fabric of her dress. “Someone will see,” she gasped...
...those clinging on to the process, Kony's next chance to come out of the bush is on May 10, when Ugandan elders will return to Southern Sudan to supposedly discuss questions of justice. No one has any idea if he will turn up, and patience, too, is wearing thin, especially among those in the international community, which has paid over $10 million for the process. They complain that for some of the negotiators the process has become more about money and political positioning than resolving the problems of northern Uganda, long marginalized and battered...
...rich medium where they divide and multiply, and are then attached to a scaffolding structure and put in a bioreactor to grow. In order to achieve the texture of natural muscle, the cells must be physically stretched and flexed, or exercised, regularly. After several weeks, voila, you have a thin layer of muscle tissue that can be harvested and processed into ground beef, chicken or pork, depending on the origin of the cells. But don't expect to see big, juicy in vitro steaks anytime soon; the technology has not yet been able to synthesize blood vessels or grow large...
...roster proved to be too deep for the undersized Crimson squad.“Particularly when you’re in a dual meet, if you don’t have depth, then you’re asking athletes to cover a multitude of events and they get stretched thin,” Saretsky said.Though Harvard captured a sweep in the 500-meter run with co-captain Brian Holmquest, freshman Ryan Neely, and senior Andrew Lipkin finishing at 15:08.58, 15:19.55, and 15:23.17, the Crimson lacked representation in key events—like the 200-meter dash?...