Aside from a child's inherited genetic predisposition to asthma, other factors which are thought to influence whether they develop it or not include the number of brothers or sisters they have, and to a certain extent their diet in the early years.

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Educational psychologist Vivian Hill says parents can help by taking noisy brothers or sisters out and creating a quiet space for the child in the home or encouraging them to study in the school library or another quiet place.

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Even your little brothers or sisters in college may have girlfriends and boyfriends, so you can imagine the pressure and frustration.

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Progress takes time so for now check out a list of HANA's 17 other new members after the break and dream of a day when your HDTV, AV system, set-top box, DVR and PMPs can join hands as sisters and brothers throughout the house with no new wiring or extensive setup necessary.

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But proximity to the posh highlands resort didn't spare Wambugu and her nine brothers and sisters from going a day or two at a time without eating.

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Or, like West Germans embracing their much poorer eastern brothers and sisters, would historic nationalism trump short term economics?

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In other words, American citizens with brothers or sisters in the Philippines who filed while Ronald Reagan was still president and before the Berlin Wall fell are still waiting for their relatives to join them.

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Ironically, military enlistees, who must learn to recognize a problem (like, where a bullet is coming from) and then solve it or die, may be better equipped to compete in the real world than their academically oriented brothers and sisters!

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