But in life as in study, I was too ambitious to let my nerdiness hold me back.
Since 1995, Dr. Ryff and her Wisconsin team have been studying some 7, 000 individuals and examining factors that influence health and well-being from middle age through old age in a study called MIDUS, or the Mid-Life in the U.S. National Study of Americans, funded by the National Institute on Aging.
The Institute University of Leipzig, in Germany has a major genetic study called LIFE to examine disease in populations.
The great variation in life expectancy among pensioners has been highlighted in a new study by the actuarial firm Towers Watson.
The Institute comprises three centers, the Center for SETI Research, the Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe and the Center for Education and Public Outreach.
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Ira Flatow will be here to talk about a new study about life expectancy in the U.S. And the Mars rovers are still roving nearly three years into what was supposed to be a three-month mission.
Then there was the Japanese pediatrician Shimesu Koino, who ate 2, 000 eggs of an intestinal roundworm in order to study the life cycle of the organism firsthand.
Relationships with colleagues and giving back to the community are more important to women than salary, according to "The Hidden Brain Drain: Off-Ramps and On-Ramps in Women's Careers, " a study by the Center for Work-Life Policy, which was published in the Harvard Business Review last year.
But John Airey at the Pro-life Alliance told BBC News Online that the study in the Netherlands "shows how mistaken the Dutch are".
The Vatican quotes Anthony Valle, a professor of theology, as saying the pope has been open to scientific inquiry in his own study of Jesus' life.
The study found that the gap in life expectancy between black and white women of non-Hispanic origin closed to 3.7 years in 2008, down from 4.6 years in 2003.
So she decided she wanted me to go to a military school in Pennsylvania, and that really ended up being one of the turning points in my life -- having the opportunity to study there and really remake my own identity.
He said that one of the happiest times of his life was spent at the American School of Classical Study in Athens in the 1930s.
This new book is enabling many of those who have devoted their life to the study and promotion of freedom to engage in the debate of how to measure a more elaborate concept.
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About three-quarters of people in the UK are satisfied with life, according to a study to measure well-being by the Office for National Statistics.
When he attended college in Cairo, he undertook a study of Jewish life there, associating with Jews and reading the works of Zionists such as Theodor Herzl.
Prof Monaghan says the study shows the importance of processes acting early in life.
The ability to isolate the single organism makes possible the study of the environment's role in its life cycle.
It would be hard to write in such a study while oblivious of death as a life rhythm, of life as a death cycle.
Global Market research firm TNS has released their Digital Life study results, based on over 48, 000 interviews in 46 countries of people aged 16 to 60.
According to a Goldman Sachs research study into women's participation in the economic life of a developing countries, it brings lasting benefits to the entire nation, not just the women involved.
The sequencing in this study was done with the SOLID system made by Life Technologies.
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Even when stacked up against other factors that contribute to life satisfaction, living in a greener area had a significant effect, the study said.
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It takes first place among the biotech clusters ranked by the Milken Institute in its first "America's Biotech and Life Science Clusters" study, released today.
In the film I interview John Jackson who led a major investigation on the shroud in 1978 and has made the study of the Shroud his life's work.
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He went on from Vienna to study in Berlin, and was stimulated by its seedy social life.
Anxiety disorders emerge early in life: The median age of onset is 11, according to the study.
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"I think it's amazing what Sheryl McCollum is doing at Bauder College by providing these students with a hands-on opportunity to study a real-life criminal investigation, " Beth Holloway said in a statement to CNN.
Not so, says a National Academy of Sciences study that attributes two thirds of the retractions in the biomedical and life-sciences to scientific misconduct.
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