Mr. Thaws said his wide-ranging taste in music has its roots in his childhood.

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In 2001, Serum Institute decided to venture out of its traditional childhood vaccines with known technology and develop a new vaccine of great need in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Its message that ill health was directly related to poverty was as unwelcome as its expensive recommendations for tackling poverty in childhood.

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Chlamydia trachomatis also causes blindness, while its cousin, Chlamydia pneumoniae, is implicated in childhood asthma and adult emphysema.

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The National Association for People Abused in Childhood says it has received 2, 500 calls to its helpline since the Savile scandal began.

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In the largest study of its kind, researchers looked at every case of childhood cancer - and found no association whatsoever with EMFs, whether created by power lines or simply by wiring arrangements in the home.

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Its narrator, Elena Greco, recalls her Neapolitan childhood and adolescence, in the late nineteen-fifties.

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In her childhood, Independence was a town of some eleven thousand people, but its population has declined to about nine thousand.

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Like is set in Scotland for its first half and Cambridge for its second, and focuses on two childhood friends and their separate accounts of their friendship.

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Moreover, the increasing prevalence of high BMI in childhood is a worrying phenomenon, since early onset means living with obesity and its metabolic consequences virtually for a lifetime.

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