Word: understood
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...Fried was able to steer Kolarik's thoughts to Harvard's caliber of education, selling the whole school. He also enlisted sophomore winger Aaron Kim, a Deerfield alum, to help him out in his endeavor. Mazzoleni had covered the quality of the program; Fried made sure Kolarik understood the Harvard of his dreams...
Ruggiero's Crimson teammates naturally understood her decision, yet were...
...sponsorship of the NCAA has beneficial effects for many reasons. The prestige of competing for an NCAA title is certainly understood by the participants...
Exactly why obesity and early development should be linked is not well understood. But Kaplowitz suspects early breast development may be encouraged by a protein called leptin. "We know that fat cells produce leptin," he says. "And leptin is necessary for the progression of puberty." Another clue, according to Duke's Freemark, is that overweight girls have more insulin circulating in their blood. Says Freemark: "Those higher levels of insulin appear to stimulate the production of sex hormones from the ovary and the adrenal gland...
...sexually transmitted diseases--and, for those who start menstruating early as well, pregnancy--are only the most obvious fallout of premature development. Academic pressure, drugs and alcohol in the schools, peer pressure and sexually explicit media are all conspiring to foreshorten childhood, with consequences that are still not well understood. "One of the big shocks during the whole Clinton debacle," says William Damon, director of Stanford's Center on Adolescence, "was that people were trying to filter out phrases like 'oral sex,' when in fact there were no eight-year-olds who didn't already know what that...