As another military recruitment season starts in China, many hopeful recruits will be fretting over their physical condition before joining the army. And it’s a fact of life that applicants can be judged by their appearance regardless of their abilities. But, that doesn’t apply if you’re signing up for the People’s Liberation Army (PLA).
AsanothermilitaryrecruitmentseasonstartsinChina,manyhopefulrecruitswillbefrettingovertheirphysicalconditionbeforejoiningthearmy.Andit’safactoflifethatapplicants
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The Indian government has said it plans to measure the height of Mount Everest for a second time to assess whether it changed as a result of the 2015 Nepal earthquake.
Over the past century, adult human height has changed substantially and varied vastly by country, with Dutch men and Latvian women listed as the world's tallest people, according to a new study released this week.
People on the Chinese mainland have made significant progress in the global ranking of height over the past century, new research shows.
Imperial College London looked at residents of 200 countries from 1914 to 2014
The shorter you are, the more your risk of coronary heart disease, according to a new study out Wednesday that attributed the link in part to genetics, rather than purely to nutrition or lifestyle factors.
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