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...characteristic that pain doesn't seem to distinguish is gender: according to Krueger and Stone's study, men and women were nearly equally likely to find themselves in pain. Another is age. People reported more aches and pains as they got older, though surprisingly that pain tended to plateau from ages 45 to 75. "Maybe people reach a point in their career where they move up the ladder into a desk job," Krueger says. "Or maybe they've just learned how to cope with the pain...
...returns to its roots and becomes commonplace knowledge among members of a society, the rate of packaged food consumption will decrease dramatically. Along with this sharp decline in processed food, the American population would dramatically lower its intake of sugars, salts, and unhealthy fats, and the obesity epidemic would plateau, if not decline.Eisenberg structured the conference as a pseudo-teaching kitchen, his dream location for the application of this philosophy. Eisenberg sought to structure the workship by creating autonomous departments in which attendees learn everything from how to pick healthy food in the supermarket to how to prepare nutritious...
...championship in the program’s history. Leading the Big Red charge is 6’2 junior Jeomi Maduka, averaging 14.1 points per game and 40 points shy of becoming the 11th player in Cornell women’s basketball history to reach the 1,000-point plateau. Last weekend, Maduka averaged 15.5 points, 10. 5 rebounds, one assist and one steal in two games against Brown and Yale.The Crimson tips off against the Big Red at 6 p.m. tomorrow—and the stakes could not be higher. But if the game against Cornell is to mean...
...study, published in 1981, captures the theology of the revolution at its peak. Future historians of the movement, in fact, may set the years of sexual revolt at roughly 1965 to 1975. Since the mid-'70s, according to some small surveys, the revolution has decelerated or reached a plateau. One such study shows that rates of premarital intercourse for students at the University of California at Davis rose sharply to 62% by 1977 and then increased to only 64% by 1981. Said Ann Clurman, a vice president at Yankelovich, Skelly & White: "In the latter part of the decade...
...solidly as they once were. Tom W Smith of N.O.R.C. writes that in most categories, liberal sentiments "either leveled off or slowed their rate of increase around 1973-75. Instead of a conservative tide, the period since about 1973 can be better described as a liberal plateau...