" When the woman invariably says "10, " the next question is, "So does your husband really understand how much you want to lose this weight?

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Now, she says, when she asked the same question in her Ethiopian classes last summer, almost everyone raised their hands.

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"This company does not try to stack the deck when we study an important question, " says Dr. Andrew Bodnar , senior vice president at Bristol-Myers Squibb.

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"I always get the question of when I should work out, " says Harper, and his much-repeated response is that the perfect time is anytime you can fit some exercise into your schedule.

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"You shouldn't put people at risk when you think you can't answer the research question, " Caplan says.

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"The most painful question is when people ask how Arya is doing, " says Loren, who recently ordered a wheelchair for her daughter.

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He says that when a marriage starts to break down, the unspoken question is: who will seize the child first, the mum or the dad?

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" When asked whether he would ever do the same, Salman says, "This is a hard question because lately I've seen just frustration and frustration.

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