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Prospective writers of today face a “daunting, shark-filled lagoon,” Canadian author Margaret Atwood told an audience of more than 600 in Cambridge yesterday...
Eager crowds formed lines around the Congregational First Church up to an hour before Atwood was scheduled to speak, thumbing through copies of Harry Potter novels along with Atwood’s best-sellers—The Edible Woman, The Handmaid’s Tale and The Blind Assassin among them—as they waited...
...seniors make up about 80% of the clientele. With its welcoming staff, accessible layout, gleaming air-pressurized weight machines, original art that changes every few months and Big-Band music at a palatable roar, HealthFit has won over 650 fanatically loyal members in its first year. Its founder, John Atwood, 48, spent 25 years in the industry before realizing that he was sick of helping "the already fit get a little fitter. With seniors, fitness makes a real difference...
...that idea continues to sink in, smart fitness-club owners will pursue the senior market ever more aggressively. They may even find that 20- and 30-year-olds appreciate Benny Goodman alongside the standard fare of Top 40 pop. Back in Needham, Mass., HealthFit's John Atwood has already begun to get calls from executives at major fitness chains interested in emulating his model, and he knows that before long, Atwood the visionary will be--yawn--Atwood the guy who runs another one of those senior athletic centers. He doesn't mind that much...
...BLIND ASSASSIN Margaret Atwood's novel is part family saga, part social history, part suspense tale and altogether captivating. As its elderly narrator, Iris Chase, looks back on her life--and some mysterious deaths--she evokes not only a tangled past but a luminous fictional realm...