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...always found the Accio charm to be ridiculously useful, to the point where it's implausible even by magical standards - "Accio Hagrid" indeed! The house-elves are strangely overpowered too: they can, for example, apparate in and out of Hogwarts, a fact that Rowling notes but doesn't really explain. With Dobby freed from his servitude to wizardkind, one wonders why he isn't running the planet...
Although Alegria said she and her fellow researchers did not specify work habits as a variable in the study, she thinks that the typical Latino lifestyle could explain this disparity in eating disorders...
Those “drinking rules” I had to explain at that first meeting? None to speak of, considering everyone’s of age. Add to the fact that they’re mostly from abroad—England, the Netherlands, Japan, Australia and Greece, just to name a few in my entryway—and it’s clear that their alcohol consumption is much more akin to “civilized social norm” than the “get-trashed-and-throw-up” mentality that seems to rule in American...
...mental health issues, including eating disorders, also appear related to length of time lived in America. “There is a correlation between frequency of the disorder and English proficiency,” said Cao, though she admitted that this association could be due to increased ability to explain health issues to English-speaking doctors...
...Still, the censors are at a loss to explain why they didn't touch a kiss between two men in the urban comedy Arisan, but cut a heterosexual kiss in the biopic Gie. "We have 12 categories of kisses," explains Said, adding that permissible kisses include pecks on the cheek and forehead but not on the lips if it could "arouse one's passion." As for the two men in Arisan, she says the scene was shot from far away and thus didn't arouse the requisite feelings. "As long as a kiss does not arouse passion or lust...