Word: thrive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Noelle's parents were concerned. Their 21-month-old daughter had failed to gain any weight in nearly six months. Such failure to thrive is usually the result of illness, poverty or neglect, but Dr. Michael Pugliese found that the child was basically healthy and the couple well-to-do and doting. In fact, the parents were so committed to caring for Noelle (not her real name) that they had placed her on a stringent low-fat diet in an effort to ensure that she did not become obese. Told that the strict regimen was stunting the toddler's growth...
...growing number of children under age two are, like Noelle, victims of misguided parental notions of a healthy diet, warns Pugliese. Restrictive diets, he notes, now account for about one-fourth of the cases of failure to thrive seen at the hospital. Pugliese and Pediatric Nutritionist Michelle Weyman-Daum reviewed the records of seven children, age seven months to 22 months, and found that the youngsters were all on low-fat, low-cholesterol diets and getting only 63% to 94% of the calories they needed. Parents typically substituted skim milk for whole, fed their toddlers lean meat and complex carbohydrates...
...example, it is inefficient to produce pork in desert areas like the Middle East because pigs thrive best on the same scarce fruits and grains that nourish man, whereas cud-chewing animals (cattle, sheep, goats) develop on high-cellulose brush plants that are hard for man to digest. The meat from pigs was thus considered not only bad to eat but "bad to think," hence the prohibition of eating the flesh of pigs, which were said to be dirty. According to Harris, pigs become dirty only when left untended, and so they get a bum rap. A pig prefers...
...state Senate race seems marked by mutual respect so far, unlike the Eighth District campaigns, which seem to thrive on mutual accusation...
Until the CIA realizes that an abundance of classified material, covert funding and censorship have no place in institutions that depend and thrive on openness and freedom, Harvard professors must understand that contracts with the agency are inappropriate. As Bok and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences A. Michael Spence review the university's outside research regulations, they should make it absolutely clear that no Harvard professor should make research, consulting or other contracts with the CIA or similar agencies when there are strings attached...