Word: grewing
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...known since his boyhood. This on a day when, in contrast to previous pontiffs who'd taught that the Jews' exile from their land had been punishment for the death of Jesus, John Paul II took the unprecedented step of blessing the state of Israel. The Polish pontiff, who grew up among Jews, may well have succeeded in turning the page on his church's relationship with the faith out of which it grew...
...Crimson and elsewhere, students have taken positions across the scale. Some, who grew up writing autoexec.bat files, are extremely excited at the chance to explore new technologies. Some, intent on making their first million before graduation, hope for an influx of angels. Still others, eyeing those budding millionaires, maintain that enterprise has no place at the university...
Gusmao is not a trained economist or public administrator, but he is steeped in the lessons of suffering. Born in 1946 in a sleepy town 30 miles east of Dili, he wrote in his autobiography that he grew up to the groans of prisoners being whipped in public by heavy-handed Portuguese colonialists. At 16 he ran away from his studies at a Catholic seminary and wound up in Dili, teaching Portuguese at a Chinese school and working as a government surveyor. He was fired when, in his first act of defiance, he threatened to punch his boss...
...When it comes to kids and food, it's what parents do, not what they say, that matters most. A study of young children presented to the American Heart Association found that those who grew to be the plumpest had parents who themselves were either controlled eaters or binge eaters. Kids whose parents alternated between these behaviors gained the most fat. The advice for parents: set a good example through sensible diet, and respect your children's natural hunger patterns...
...Soon I grew to discover more about Navin--about his remarkable role at the Red Cross, where he was the youngest national committee chair ever; his impressive work ethic, which seemed to make him always the most prepared person in section; even his ambivalence about how people should pronounce his name. (He liked NA-vin, but our Ec. 10 TF preferred the apparently more authentic na-VEEN...