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...pounding at 130 beats per minute or more. Cooper grades exercises according to how fast they induce the training effect and increase oxygen use. Running and jogging rank first, followed by swimming, cycling stationary running, the handball-squash-basketball group of sports, and walking. An aerobics fan must attain a weekly score of at least 30 points on Cooper's scale. He may do this by walking three rules in no more than 41 minutes five times a week, by swimming 700 yards in 15 minutes five times a week, or by running a mile in eight minute...
...cities as quickly as most Americans would like. By dampening Americans' personal expectations, the recession has served as well to moderate their demands on the nation. The public is willing to admit that national priorities must be set and that some desirable goals will require time to attain. The downturn has re-emphasized the virtues of hard work and self-reliance and has brought about a modest revival of the puritan ethic. None of this means that recessions are desirable. The goal of rising prosperity is not only a fundamental part of the American credo; it is absolutely essential...
...Catholic view is in a littlenoticed, remarkably subtle document issued by the U.S. Maryknoll missionaries after a general chapter meeting in 1966. Citing a "new optimism" in theology, the document declares that "the saving invitation and power of God reach out to all men" even if they do not attain "explicit faith in Christ and his Church." The role of the Christian is not to convert everybody but to be an example: "A sign before nations . . . a sign to confront them with the challenge of God's love, to tell them of their own deepest selves, to purify...
...when dealing with people, I have encountered a new kind of conundrum. Before, the problem of group identity had been one of adopting roles traditionally presented to me for acquisition. All of them had been imposed by an outside agency, all had taken a certain amount of effort to attain, but all had needed to be reassessed and either put off, or reassumed on a different basis...
...under: bisexuality. Reacting to TIME'S story (Dec. 14) reporting Militant Kate Mil left's public admission that she is "bisexual," nine Women's Lib leaders held a press conference last week in New York City to announce common cause with "the struggle of homosexuals to attain their liberation in a sexist society." The leaders, including Millett herself, Ti-Grace Atkinson of the National Organization of Women, and Writers Gloria Steinem, Sally Kempton and Susan Brownmiller, issued a prepared statement. Excerpt: "Lesbian is a label used as a psychic weapon to keep women locked into their male...