Word: thins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unquantified chance of brain damage have to be weighed against the danger of remaining fat, which is considerable. Severe obesity puts people at risk for heart disease, diabetes and some cancers, and in the U.S. contributes to 300,000 deaths each year. If Redux can help these people get thin, it might be worth the risk...
...takes money to do surveillance, though, and the CDC and the WHO, along with such institutions as France's Pasteur Institute, are already stretched very thin. That is why health professionals are relying more and more on modern communications technology, including the Internet, to gather the information they need about disease outbreaks. Heymann's EMC already has its own page under the who Website, and an E-mail network connects research centers around the world with the WHO's headquarters and field offices. The CDC too has a home page, which includes the agency's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report...
...Bosnia. Just the opposite, says the front-running Serb candidate for the joint presidency, Momcilo Krajisnik. "If the Muslims try to press for a stronger [central government for] Bosnia and Herzegovina, that could lead to collapse," he threatens. Dismissing any talk of reintegration, he adds, "Bosnia is only a thin roof under which it has two, completely sovereign entities." Krajisnik even carries his vision for division to the bicameral parliament's architecture. He has suggested constructing a building on the former confrontation line with two entrances, one for the Serbs coming from their side, and one for Muslims and Croats...
...bicycle is the preferred mode of transportation for most athletes, including senior tailback Eion Hu, who has rushed for over 1,000 yards in each of the last two seasons. This season, thin-tired racing bikes are "out," due mostly to their instability on Cambridge's sandy streets...
...bicycle is the preferred mode of transportation for most athletes, including senior tailback Eion Hu, who has rushed for over 1,000 yards in each of the last two seasons. This season, thin-tired racing bikes are "out," due mostly to their instability on Cambridge's sandy streets...