Word: reportable
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...HUPD responded to a report of someone crawling in a window at Mather House. The officers determined the individual was a resident of the House...
...Gore has played an important role in formulating an international response to the threat of global climate change. A recent report by the U.N.-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has concluded that greenhouse gases are warming the world beyond our previous predictions. Whereas Bush played down this threat during the debates, Gore recognizes the urgency and can provide the leadership necessary for an international agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions...
...danger, as authors Whitney Roban and Michael Conn pointed out in a report for the Girls Scouts of America called Girls Speak Out, is that the stages of childhood development--cognitive, physical and emotional--have got out of synch. Roban and Conn call this "developmental compression" and pepper their study with poignant quotes from girls struggling to cope with pressures they are ill equipped to handle. "Boys," complains a fourth-grader in their report, "are gaga over girls with breasts...
What was striking about Herman-Giddens' report was the onset of secondary sexual characteristics: breast buds and pubic hair. Significant numbers of white girls--some 15%--were showing outward signs of incipient sexual maturity by age 8, and about 5% as early as 7. For African Americans, the statistics were even more startling. Fifteen percent were developing breasts or pubic hair by age 7, and almost half...
...Pediatrics report answered many questions, but much about the subject remains a mystery. The study couldn't accurately gauge, for example, how much the average age of onset of breast development (as opposed to menstruation) has dropped or over what period. That's because a key piece of research that helped set the standard age at 11 was a small study in the 1960s of white girls raised in English orphanages. But Dr. John Dallas, a pediatric endocrinologist with the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, points out that the British girls may have been poorly nourished--a factor...