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...After a brisk, hour-long walking tour of Watts last week, Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley proposed, in general terms, a program that would take Watts preschoolers out of their homes and put them in learning centers, in order to remove them from "this whole cycle of failure." The notion caused confusion in Watts, and Bradley quickly tried to make clear that he was thinking only of some voluntary plan that might resemble the federal Head Start program...
...ACTIVITY CALORIES BURNED/MIN. 120 lb. (54-kg) person CALORIES BURNED/MIN. 180-lb. (82-kg) person CYCLING (10 m.p.h.) 5.5 8.2 DANCING (aerobic) 7.4 11.1 HIKING 4.5 6.7 JOGGING 9.3 13.9 RUNNING 11.4 17 SITTING 1.2 1.7 SWIMMING 7.8 11.6 TENNIS 6 8.9 WALKING (brisk) 6.5 9.7 WEIGHT TRAINING...
...Scottoline's other books, the writing is brisk and sassy, right at the intersection of the law genre and women's fiction. Vicki and Reheema make a sharp, urban Thelma and Louise. The story swings from the gritty to the grand, always with lawyerly attention to detail. "It's Philadelphia," Scottoline explains. "It's not a fake place. There's real police procedure. There's real law. I have to follow...
...rainy Tuesday morning in Adams House A entryway, Rosa E. Beltran ’08, armed with a yellow sponge, is surveying her opponent. She’s brisk, she’s efficient, and she’s cheerier than she has to be considering she’s about to tackle a toilet in a senior suite...
Previous studies have shown that exercise reduces the risk of developing colon cancer. But research presented to the American Society of Clinical Oncology last week showed that exercise--a brisk hour's walk six times a week--can also reduce the risk of recurrence and death for those who already have the disease...