Word: smalling
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...revenue problems. Xerox has cut bundling deals with Compaq and Dell to push its fledgling line of ink-jet printers, and it is spending $200 million on its biggest advertising blitz ever. But it's having a tough time taking on H-P in the hot personal and small-business space. "They're never going to beat [them]," says Frank Pacetta, vice president of sales at SingleSource IT and a 20-year Xerox veteran...
...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 known to delay puberty. African- American girls were studied even...
...intriguing fact: girls with high prenatal PCB exposure tended to hit the first stages of puberty a bit earlier than others. Rogan stresses that the numbers were too low to be statistically significant. "If there is an effect of environmental chemicals on puberty," he says, "it's pretty small, because we studied these kids in detail over a long period of time, and we didn't see it." But, Rogan adds, "I can't rule...
...about to place the burden of praise on a small film, a movie no larger than its main characters--kids 9 to 13, in a rural corner of North Carolina a decade ago. But George Washington can carry the weight. David Gordon Green's ensemble drama reveals emotional breadth on its miniature canvas. It shows that kids share with adults more than we imagine. Anyone, regardless of age, can fall in love or be crushed by it; anyone can surrender to despair and self-loathing, or pursue a dream that others think is folly...
This first feature by Green, just 25, will evoke memories of David Lynch's Blue Velvet (the rapturous weirdness of small-town life) and Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven (a tough girl's narration, set to gorgeous cinematography). But this kid doesn't need famous parents. It stands, soars on its own. It moves to a seductive rhythm and vision. And it has, like each of the children in it, a restless beauty that haunts their lives and the viewer's heart...