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For example, one study revealed a mean decrease of 1.54 centimetres (0.6 in) in the heights of 100 children from getting out of bed in the morning to between 4 and 5 p.m. that same day. [8] Such factors may not have been controlled in all of the following studies.
Many Sudanese immigrated to the United States in the 1990s as war refugees, escaping from the second civil war. In the 2012 American Community Survey, 48,763 people identified as Sudanese or Sudanese Americans who—or whose ancestors—have emigrated from their native land to the U.S. in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s. [4]
The first people who migrated to the US from South Sudan arrived in the mid-1980s as a result of the civil wars in Sudan, settling in places such as Chicago. [2]This migration continued in the 90s, when some South Sudanese were established in other places such as Maine (settling eventually in cities such as Portland and Lewiston), [3] Des Moines (Iowa), [4] and Omaha, Nebraska (where in 1998 ...
The average American woman weighs about 170 pounds and stands about 5 feet, 4 inches tall. But it's important to remember that these averages are mathematical calculations. They don't represent ...
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God Grew Tired of Us chronicles the arduous journey of three Southern Sudanese men, John Bul Dau, Daniel Pach and Panther Bior, to the United States where they strive for a brighter future. As young boys in the 1980s, they had walked a thousand miles to escape their war-ridden homeland, and then had to make another arduous journey to escape ...
The study found that an average global citizen lives 9.6 fewer healthy years than they live altogether — so, for example, someone who lived to 80 might have spent the last decade of their life ...
Widow(er)s are eligible for survivor benefits as long as they were married at least nine months prior to their spouse's passing. Ex-spouses are also eligible if they were married at least 10 years.