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Elsie M. Taveras, the study’s lead investigator and a professor at the Medical School, said that the physiological mechanism that causes childhood obesity is not yet well understood...
...Laden? But what kind of world am I bringing a kid into? It really did take on a different meaning for me. We started to talk through it together and I talked to her about why it was important to me, especially with our child on the way, she understood why it mattered. It was one of those things where she said, you know what? We need some concessions. I had to be home for the pregnancy. That was one of the deals I made with her. I had to be home when the baby was born. The other...
...early round of polls taken after Obama made his comments showed virtually no movement in the Pennsylvania race: Obama continued to trail Clinton but remained within striking distance. And some of the working-class Democrats in that state said they understood what Obama was trying to say, even if the professional political class didn't. "I think them remarks is the absolute truth," said Bill Williams, 60, a bearded disabled veteran from Waynesburg who attended an Obama town-hall meeting near Pittsburgh. "We like our faith and our guns. I went to church when things were bad, and I went...
...Keith, it is modern American politics, for Mark, the 1917 Russian Revolution, and for Sam, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They do not just ponder these subjects abstractly, but live through them; their entire world is framed by them. For the characters, the whole world can be understood as analogous to these ideas. When Mark tries to convince Celeste, the woman he desires, to leave her boyfriend for him, his inner monologue is about the Bolsheviks: “But one thing he had learned from the Bolsheviks: history helps those who help themselves...Mark couldn’t get over...
...nearing its bottom. In an earlier interview with The Crimson, Zell discussed the power of leverage—using borrowed capital to increase investment returns—as a major reason why he chose to enter real estate. “Even when I was in college, I understood the benefits of leverage,” Zell said. “If you start with no capital, then it’s hard to build a motorcycle factory or a lot of other things. Real estate has always been leverageable, and I can enter the business with relatively little capital...