The body mass index or BMI is a tool used to assess your weight status based on your height.

身体质量指数，简称BMI，是以身高为基础，衡量人体胖瘦程度的工具。

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The body mass index, or BMI, is a tool used to assess your weight status based on your height.

身体质量指数，简称BMI，是以身高为基础，衡量人体胖瘦程度的工具。

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MSCI, the index compiler, will announce whether it intends to upgrade South Korea to developed market status this month.

指数编纂公司摩根·士丹利资本国际(MSCI)本月将宣布它是否打算将韩国升级至发达市场指数中。

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There's one other important indicator on our Mother's Index: political status.

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Although the researchers took into account a wide range of extenuating factors, including diet and exercise regimens, smoking, alcohol consumption, body mass index, and marital status, it's possible that people who drink coffee differ from the rest of the population in as-yet unidentified ways that make them less vulnerable to disease and early death.

CNN: Coffee drinking linked to longer life

When countries were classified in 1990 by their status in the United Nations Human Development Index (an index of income, literacy and health), high-development countries achieved robust and stable economic growth during 1990-98, with average growth rates of around 2.3% a year and with 35 out of 36 countries enjoying rising living standards.

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