Word: dropping
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...instructor, the craft goes deeper than fashion and fame. "The U.S. is the hardest-working country in the world," says Chin, 38. "We need the downtime, and knitting has been scientifically proved to be a stress reducer." Since she began giving lessons in 1991, Chin has had a dramatic drop in the average age of her students. Why? Gloria Steinem had her day, but now Martha Stewart says it's O.K.--even empowering--to nest. "Sometimes I can work 12 hours a day and not accomplish much," explains Yassy Okamoto, 27, a corporate lawyer in Tsang's knitting circle. "When...
...early childhood. Researchers are uncovering distinct "windows of opportunity" in which various cells in the body are most receptive to--and most in need of--particular nutrients. For example, studies suggest that a lack of iron early in life can lead to as much as a four-point drop in IQ. At the same time, there's a lot that researchers still don't know, particularly about what makes those hated vegetables so good for you and your kids...
They play a rougher style of hockey, and the danger for injury is always high, especially because the Crimson may not be in peak game shape. UNB also has a high propensity to drop the gloves for a fight, an act that would carry a one-game suspension for any Harvard pugilist, exhibition match...
...aware of the problems many of them bring on themselves. There is, for example, their tendency to drink and then drive and be killed in car wrecks. "As I approached the reservation," Frazier writes of his first visit, "I imagined I could feel the life expectancy drop, as palpable as a sudden drop in temperature...
Youth and the lack of Clemente, seems to have finally caught up with Harvard, though, as it dropped contests at Yale and at Brown--69-61 and 78-68, respectively--last weekend to drop...