Word: amish
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...companions’ dissatisfaction with my explanation produces an awkward silence. People look at me like I’ve said too much, as though I’ve revealed some sordid personal information that should remain private. Conversation killer, their eyes seem to say. Go back to the Amish village from whence you came...
These are two entirely different places in every possible way. In Cambridge, drivers become angry when the Ford Focus in front of them tries to turn left onto JFK during rush hour. In the North Country, drivers seem surprisingly patient while stuck behind an Amish buggy in the no-passing zone of a winding, two-lane road...
HEALTH: Testosterone pros and cons; buff Amish; when...
Ever wonder why the Amish look so fit? In an experiment, 100 adults in an Amish farming community in southern Ontario wore pedometers and logged their physical activity for a week. Not surprisingly, the Amish, who favor a 19th century lifestyle, were quite active. The men reported 10 hours of vigorous work a week and averaged 18,425 steps a day. All told, they engaged in six times as much physical activity as did their "modern" counterparts. The bottom line? Only 4% of the Amish men were obese, vs. 31% of non-Amish men. And this despite plenty of potatoes...
...bargain. Luna and their lawyers spent the day hashing out a plea to be finalized Thursday morning. Yet when morning arrived, Luna was not in court. Soon the whole nation knew why. Four hours earlier, 90 miles north in a part of Pennsylvania's Lancaster County more familiar with Amish horses and buggies than homicide, a silver Honda Accord had been found idling but empty, its nose dipped in a small creek. Yards away was a body. The victim, federal law-enforcement sources say, had been severely beaten and stabbed 36 times. That, however, did not kill him. He apparently...