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Norwegian researchers report that low-birth-weight babies appear to be at significantly higher risk of developing IBS , a chronic bowel ailment characterized by gas, diarrhea, and constipation . In the study, a research team tracked the health of 3,334 twin pairs and found that the risk of developing IBS was 2.5 times greater among those whose birth weights were below 1,500 grams (3.3 pounds) at birth.

DEFINITION: (noun) A wind instrument of the trumpet class, having three valves operated by pistons. SYNONYMS: trumpet, trump, horn. USAGE: The cornet, a transposing instrument, has a less brilliant tone but greater agility than the trumpet.

Cervantes was a Spanish author best known for Don Quixote de la Mancha, his novel about an aging knight. A superb burlesque of the popular romances of chivalry, the work was an enormous success and has had an indelible effect on the development of the European novel. Cervantes himself led an eventful life; he was imprisoned several times, captured by pirates, and sold as a slave. What statesman is said to have learned Spanish so that he could read Don Quixote in the original?

In 1972, Prime Minister of Japan Tanaka Kakuei's visit to China culminated in the signing of the Joint Communique, a historic document that ended nearly 80 years of enmity and friction between the two states. In the statement, Tokyo recognized the Beijing government over the Taipei government as the sole legal government of China, while China waived its demand for war indemnities from Japan at the intergovernmental level. What was the total dollar amount of these reparations claims?

Corfu is a Greek island in the Ionian sea, off the coast of Albania. The second largest of the Ionian islands, Corfu rises 2,980 ft (910 m) at Mt. Pantokrator in the northeast but is largely a fertile lowland producing olive oil, figs, wine, and citrus fruit. The island has been identified with Scheria, the island of the Phaeacians in Homer's Odyssey. It was settled around 730 BCE by Corinthian colonists. What Empress of Austria commissioned the building of a summer palace there?