Word: particularly
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College students--as members of an age bracket old enough to begin making financial decisions, but too young to have formed established connections with particular brands--are a particularly sought-after group...
...arrived at this policy through careful consideration of all the students it serves, not by caving "into the demands of one particular subset of moral beliefs." In the process, the University has cultivated a policy on abortion and elective surgery that is both just and consistent...
...potential for a black market in AndroGel is not hard to imagine among teens and guys in their 20s--and older--who hear stories about a new substance stronger than the supplements available over the counter and easier to use than anabolic steroids that are injected. For teens in particular, the dangers of testosterone overload are not just acne and breast development but a shutting down of bone growth--though they may be at an age that makes them almost deaf to the risks. For older men, studies indicate that high levels of T do not necessarily cause prostate cancer...
...even the passage of time doesn't guarantee that a particular man's testosterone will decline to a level that much affects how he feels, at least not by middle age. Middle-age men who preserve the body weight they had in their 20s may have no falloff at all, while overweight adult men of any age tend to have lower testosterone levels. This means that a couple of the goombahs on The Sopranos are probably deficient, though maybe I should let you be the one to tell them that...
This is a major development, says TIME senior writer Frederic Golden, particularly in light of the public's fascination with all things dinosaur. "Anything that advances our understanding of these marvelous creatures is bound to be met with a great deal of excitement," he says. And it doesn't hurt that this particular find feeds into one of the most vigorous debates surrounding our prehistoric friends: The all-important distinction between warm blood and cold blood. There has been a longstanding controversy over dinosaurs' place in the evolutionary family tree; some scientists maintain the giant lizards were the ancestors...