Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...similar body weights whether or not they are raised in different families, and that they are much more likely to grow up looking like their natural parents than their adoptive ones. "If both biologic parents are fat, about 80% of their kids are going to be fat," says Dr. Albert Stunkard of the University of Pennsylvania...
Looks like I've got my work cut out for me, Diane. There are network executives to question. A suspicious one-armed man has been hanging around the Nielsen offices. Get Albert and his team on the case. Now if I can just get out of this bulletproof vest...
...When Albert Einstein unveiled his general theory of relativity in 1916, he predicted several phenomena that could be used to test its validity. Two of them -- that light is bent by gravity and that the orbit of Mercury wobbles in a certain way -- were confirmed within just a few years, convincing scientists that relativity was a revolutionary discovery, not just a mathematical curiosity. But Einstein thought another of his claims would never be proved. His theory predicted that fast-moving, massive objects emit gravity waves, small distortions moving through the fabric of space and time. Einstein said these waves would...
...have doubted that the Class of '92 was one of the most exciting things to happen to the Harvard men's tennis program since the introduction of indoor courts. But never would anyone guess how quickly the sophomore quintet of Michael Zimmerman, Derek Brown, Albert Chang, John Tolmie and Shyjan would help the program become one of the nation's best...
Although the classes include both genders, the main goal is to lift the sights and spirits of black boys, most of whom live only with their mothers or grandmothers. "The whole concept is to get the kids to look at themselves," says Albert Pearsall III, a computer security-programs manager at the U.S. Department of Justice who teaches black history, along with a traditional second-grade curriculum. "If I can work effectively in a professional career, why can't these kids...