43 A recent study showed that in contemporary children, the strength of the association between paternal smoking and offspring BMI in childhood was similar to that of maternal smoking, 41 suggesting common confounding by smoking for both mothers and fathers.
The roots of Democratic Party vulnerability on affirmative action and other forms of group-based "preferences" lie in the social, cultural and moral revolutions of the 1960s and 70s – revolutions that have been the source of contemporary liberalism's strengths and liabilities.
Merveldt was known to his contemporaries for his strength of will, presence of mind, and his self-control.
Provides: a profile of the study communities (including the status of women and children); an overview of indigenous governance, contemporary practices and strengths and weaknesses; case studies involving children as victims/survivors and in conflict with the law.
The panel used Mr. Bout's case to demonstrate the complex organizational strength of contemporary smugglers and the lack of effective international agreements or practices to curb them.
I wouldn't say there is a single tradition in modern dance or a single center, and this, I think, is a great strength of contemporary dance today, that there is no one ruling orthodoxy.
"You need to penetrate the established facade of symphonic orchestral music, a cement block unable to cross another dimension, and the tremendous strength of contemporary music where Elvis Presley is the Mozart and The Beatles are the Beethoven," he said.
Although the best American non-fiction writers who came after Manchester – Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe, Michael Lewis – tended to be brighter stylists, they carried on the understanding that the strength of contemporary history is the availability of primary oral accounts and that the reporter's major job is to orchestrate and counterpoint these verbal sources.
Standardized bench-top compression and elongation testing was undertaken to assess the longitudinal strength of contemporary stents.
He believes that the real strength of contemporary art is not to reveal universal truths, but to allow people to enjoy their lives more intensely: to this effect, he quotes the French artist Robert Filliou, who was equally committed to the idea of art as a spiritual activity: "Art is what makes life more interesting than art".
