Boys are more likely than girls to have an underlying physical cause for early puberty, but boys in this study were most likely free of any physical conditions that might explain the results, said lead author Marcia Herman-Giddens, a researcher at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.

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Was it fear of setting out any positions that New Labour could one day find embarrassing that made Mr Giddens write such a bad book?

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Last week a Blairite guru, Anthony Giddens, he of the Third Way, who runs the London School of Economics, was in Madrid for an Aznarian hobnob.

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Giddens last year joined a lawsuit against Corzine and other former executives brought by MF Global customers.

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Another Labour peer, Lord Giddens, an academic who has written a book on the politics of climate change, also praised some of the policies of the government.

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By contrast, Mr Giddens's integrated political programme boils down to a list of conventional appeals to civic virtue, in which every bet is hedged and every hard choice ducked.

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As the trial has progressed, lawyers representing Lehman, liquidation trustee James W. Giddens and the official committee of unsecured creditors have probed various witnesses over a number of disputed assets that they contend should not have been part of the deal.

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