All through my boyhood I had a profound conviction that I was no good, that I was wasting my time, wrecking my talents, behaving with monstrous folly and wickedness and ingratitude and all this, it seemed, was inescapable, because I lived among laws which were absolute, like the law of gravity, but which it was not possible for me to keep
But then I remember my grandfather, who was in the Wehrmacht and died at Stalingrad, and I contemplate the terrible suffering and deprivation he must have experienced for months before finally being killed
Nonetheless, he was surprised to find that all of the hypotheses tested in the study were confirmed
By encouraging household members to stop smoking (and/or by declining smoking prevalence rates in the population as a whole), the burden of childrens growth problems would also be reduced at the population level