Word: seriousness
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Although GDM is a serious condition that “increases both short-term and long-term health risk for the mother and the baby,” Chen said that it has not garnered as much attention from the scientific community as other risk factors during pregnancy...
...almost Shakespearean in scope, with a misshapen tragic hero, a dysfunctional family, a lot of blood and guts, and general disorder in the Great Chain of Being. But at the same time, it’s very funny and self-referential, often poking fun at itself or interrupting serious moments with bits of irreverent humor...
...power to do many other crazy things like thin your eyebrows by infinitesimal degrees, preview colored contact lenses, and sample hundreds of different cosmetics, each of which corresponds to a real-life product with the price and purchasing information right there on the page. What started as a serious endeavor to see what I’d look like with a pixie cut has now become an ambitious project: to outfit all my blockmates in Lady Gaga hair. Don’t tell; it’s their Christmas present...
Election season in the Philippines has just begun, and nearly one hundred candidates have registered to run in next year's presidential derby. Eliminate the no-hopers and cranks - one candidate does rooster impressions - and it is shaping up to be a four-cornered race, with a clutch of serious contenders as outside bets...
...Meanwhile, thousands of well wishers turn up at Siriraj Hospital each day to pray for the king's health. Doctors have insisted that the king has improved and he is not in anything approaching a serious condition. But his long stay at the hospital and continued absence from public view has fueled unease, speculation and rumors. Recently, the government arrested four people for allegedly spreading rumors about the king's health on the internet, which, it claims, caused a stock market sell-off in October. Reporters Without Borders, an international media watchdog group, has said those arrested are scapegoats...