Word: normalization
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...high school, and were even less likely to enter college if they went to a high school where few other students were overweight, says Crosnoe. But obese girls who went to high school with a sizable overweight population - where heavy girls represented about 20% of the student body - had normal odds of attending college. "The more it makes you stand out from the crowd, the worse it is," says Crosnoe...
...drinking a beer, waiting for my friends…listening to the frequency. I heard a noise from far away, and at first I thought it was just normal traffic, or someone had crashed their car. But suddenly people came running through, shouting ‘come, come, a plane crashed.’ When we got close and saw the scene, the plane in flames and smoke, the eight of us were paralyzed...
...greed or what? Kravis, Stephen Schwarzman and other princes of private equity (the financial deal of the moment) have been visiting Congress and wielding their checkbooks in an effort to save a tax-code provision that allows them to pay an income tax of 15% rather than the normal top rate of 35%. Have they lost their minds...
...heart. Higher rates of atherosclerosis, heart attacks and strokes can stem from early exposure to chemotherapy agents, specifically anthracyclines like Adriamycin. Although powerful against tumors, these drugs can weaken the heart muscle and stiffen the blood vessels, promoting hardening of the arteries at a much earlier age than normal...
Hutchinson's team, led by Dr. Jim Olson, spent three years developing the compound and has tested it in a variety of human tumors grown in mice. "The target we are hitting is something that most cancer cells use to eat away normal tissue to make space for the cancer to grow," he says. So far the researchers have successfully illuminated five kinds of cancers: gliomas and medulloblastomas in the brain, sarcomas in muscles, and prostate and colon cancers. They expect to begin testing the agent in human patients next year...