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When Maida Kelly, 73, of Falmouth, Mass., signed up for Nelson's first strength-training trial 12 years ago, her idea of exercise was running over to a Filene's Basement sale on a lunch break from her job as a phone-company sales manager. After a year of twice-a-week sessions, Kelly's lower-body strength improved 41%, and her upper body improved nearly 86%. Now retired, Kelly has added Rollerblading, dancing and white-water rafting to her thrice-weekly sessions of aerobics and weight training. "At my age, there isn't anything that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Catch-Up Fitness | 6/2/2003 | See Source »

...booked two to a room. Monday morning they went to the Denny's attached to the hotel to work on strategy while fortifying themselves with Moons over My Hammy (ham, cheese and scrambled-egg sandwiches). At 3 a.m., the Democrats were awakened and brought down to the Holiday Inn basement, where they camped out with the media because of tornado warnings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sure Beats Working | 5/26/2003 | See Source »

...songbook is a museum basement of scattered treasures (she is trained in classical Japanese vocal techniques) and trash (she is also the world's most infamous banshee). Ono has long needed a curator, and in 2001 she gave a New Jersey duo called Orange Factory approval to go through her material and remix the 1970 innuendo-filled Open Your Box. "I'm a very difficult person," says Ono, "but when I heard it, I just thought it was beautiful. I cried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Unlikely Dance Queen | 5/26/2003 | See Source »

...increasing the availability of social space without increasing the restrictions. Columbia’s new student center, for example, was built with a dance floor and DJ booth in the basement, so students could bounce to parties there. At Wellesley and Stanford, there are campus pubs where students can go and enjoy a pitcher of beers in the safety of their living space. Yale is far more active in encouraging their students to throw parties in dorm common spaces—and allowing the students to include alcohol, unlike many House-sponsored parties here. One very easy solution would...

Author: By Margaret C . anadu, Krishnan N. Subrahmanian, and Kenyon S. Weaver, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Party On, Harvard | 5/23/2003 | See Source »

...bicycles which it can rent—at affordable cost—to those who merely want to zip across campus to hand in a paper or grab a quick lunch. And additional drop-off or pick-up locations in Harvard Square to supplement the one in Cabot basement would be convenient for students and increase revenue for the shop...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Two Wheels to Paradise | 5/21/2003 | See Source »

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