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They had a greater tolerance for weight gain, saying it would take a 20 pound gain before they took action, as opposed to the 10 pound gain that would trigger action in higher-income women.
But ultimately we at Slate invoked the true Microsoft spirit and took this as a challenge.
Though the railways took over for transport from Pinhão (at the confluence of the Douro and Pinhão rivers), and today the wine goes mostly by road, Régua remains an important transportation and commercial hub.
The landscape becomes very lunar-like; it was around here that some of the filming for Planet of the Apes took place.
But the series of subprime loans that took them down what he calls "the slippery slope" date to 1998, when he was 82.