Search Details

Word: weights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...councillors’ attention. The Cambridge Department of Public Works (DPW) operates a rat hotline, where citizens can report rat sightings or get help keeping rats from entering their house. DPW also has a Web site with frequently asked questions about the pests, providing information like the weight of the heaviest rat found in Cambridge (1 and 1/3 pounds). But some citizens give the hotline poor reviews, telling the council that it did not follow up sufficiently on rat complaints. In October, Amy Todd told the council she called the hotline after having caught or found dead some 9 rats...

Author: By Nicholas K. Tabor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Residents critique rodent hotline, seek more regulation of leaf blowers | 11/4/2007 | See Source »

...coincidence that California, land of the experimental health regimen, was home to Judy Mazel's wildly successful 1981 best seller, The Beverly Hills Diet. An aspiring actress with no medical training, Mazel became frustrated in her quest to lose weight and invented her own program, which required eating fruit for 10days and consuming just one type of food, such as carbs or proteins, at a time. Panned by health professionals, Mazel struck a chord with dieters who believed that self-educated people often know better than experts. In the '80s, Mazel, who said she lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Nov. 12, 2007 | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

...reached No. 1, from Woolworth's to Kmart, has eventually spit the bit, unable to cope with market shifts. Wal-Mart is a far superior operator to any of those has-beens--it will produce $20 billion in operating income this year. But being king is an awfully heavy weight to bear, and Wal-Mart is feeling the strain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Restoring Wal-Mart | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

...Ways to Boost Ovulation and Improve Your Chances of Getting Pregnant.” The book is based on the report and will be published this coming December, he said. Chavarro and co-author Walter C. Willett, director of the department of nutrition at HSPH, chose to track body weight, level of physical activity, multivitamin supplements, and certain dietary adjustments on the basis of past studies that correlated these factors with diabetes in women. The authors believed that these correlations were important because they speculated that sensitivity to insulin is also related to ovulatory function in women. Currently, Harvard University...

Author: By Natasha S. Whitney, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Adjusting Habits Increases Fertility | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

...Diwaniyah to rally together in their time of grief. "Please, let me ask you to get even more united, even more strong, so that this sacrifice is not a waste," he said to a crowd of about 75 stern-faced soldiers packed into a tiny chapel heavy with the weight of the day. "We need to proceed in the memory of our great hero," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Targeting U.S. Allies in Iraq | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

Previous | 243 | 244 | 245 | 246 | 247 | 248 | 249 | 250 | 251 | 252 | 253 | 254 | 255 | 256 | 257 | 258 | 259 | 260 | 261 | 262 | 263 | Next