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The second largest category of tax incentives aimed at encouraging saving promotes home ownership.
New drugs are being developed at a record pace, but only about 1% of drugs that reach the market are aimed at treating neglected diseases, such as kala-azar, Chagas' disease, and sleeping sickness, even though these account for over 10% of the global disease burden [2].
A spokesman for fertility doctors suspects that ronsangels.com is really aimed at "adolescent boys."
Also, while Talmudic scholarship is sometimes aimed at practical affairs (for instance, civil and criminal law, dietary laws, the status of women), it also considers issues that have no practical application at all, and sometimes delves into matters that may seem utterly fanciful.
More recent data indicate that black girls in the US, on average, experience menarche ~6 months earlier than do white girls [ 9 15 30 31 ] . Furthermore, the mean menarcheal age of black girls in Bogalusa decreased by approximately 9 months between 1973 and 1992 [ 15 ] . A somewhat similar, but not statistically significant, trend was also reported in a recent study, with the median menarcheal age of black girls decreasing by 5.5 months between 1960-70 and 1988-94 [ 31 ] . These trends may, at least in part, be due to the influence of various programs in the US, such as the National School Lunch Program, aimed at improving the nutritional status of children.