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Again, in Colombian, a speaker of English would have to know that when he indicates height he most choose between different gestures depending on whether he is referring to a human being or an animal.

If he keeps the palm of the hand parallel to the floor, as he would in his own culture when making known the height of a child, for example, he will very likely be greeted by laughter, in Colombia this gesture is reserved for the description of animals

A little extra height brings a number of advantages, says Elio riboli of Imperial College.

An individual's genetics has a big influence on their height but once you average over whole populations, genetics plays a less key role.

Bentham believe the global trend of increasing height has important implications.

Bentham believe the global trend of increasing height has important implications."How tall we are now is strongly influenced by the environment we grew up in," he said."If we give children the best possible start in life now,they will be healthier and mor

Born the 16th child to poor parents in Paris in either 1783 or 1784, a young Careme was suddenly abandoned at the height of the French Revolution.

But while height has increased around the world, the trend in many countries of north and sub-Saharan Africa causes concern, says Riboli.

Imagine a world where building the tallest skyscraper wasn't a race of height, but rather one to collect the most solar energy.

One reason for these decreases in height is the economic situation in the 1980s, said Alexander Moradi of University of Sussex.

The nutritional and health crises that followed the policy of structural adjustment, he says, led to many children and teenagers failing to reach their full potential in terms of height.

The results reveal that while Swedes were the tallest people in the world in 1914, Dutch men have risen from 12th place to claim top spot with an average height of 182.5cm.

While height increased in Uganda and niger during the early 20th century, the trend has reversed in recent years, with height decreasing among l8-year-olds.

In a study that will appear in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Plant's team tested 229 students during the height of the Obama fever.

If you climb to 10000 feet, stay at that height for a day or two.

Or if you do climb higher sooner, come back down to a lower height when you sleep

At heights of over 18000 feet, people may be climbing in a constant daze（恍惚）.

Flight attendants, firefighters, and police officers have to be over a certain height, and be physically fit.

Some of these painted walls are preserved in places to a height of one meter.

In the first move of its kind, all travelers will be forced to stand on both sides of escalators on the London underground as part of a plan to increase capacity at the height of the rush hour.

It explores the heights with Go Ape, the high wire forest adventure course, or journey beneath the earth at Poole's cavern.

The city planner decided to build an underground drainage system, but there simply wasn't enough difference between the height of the ground level and the water level.

As much of Mexico city shut down at the height of a panic, cases began to crop up in New York city, the southwestern United States and around the world.

BMI equals body mass divided by the square of height.