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...interviews end at 7 p.m., but work won't be over for two more hours. While partners and senior staffers tend to leave the office early to rejoin their families, young analysts burn the midnight oil. The hours are enormously variable, they say. "You're here as late as you want to be--you work until you're done, basically," one associate says. Some night analysts leave early enough to see the sun go down, but at other times they must stay until 2 or 3 a.m. Shemmer says he sleeps about six or seven hours a night--far less...
WARM UP Expect your new speakers to take 12 hr. to 50 hr. to "burn in," or reach peak performance...
...California, where he beat her and sometimes pretended to hang himself. One day he ripped out the gas wall heater and flicked his lighter. Brenda survived by diving out a second-floor window. "Fire is a weird color when you're inside it," she recalls. Years later, though burn scars cover her body, medication has controlled her mental illness and she has become a part-time "life coach" at the Village. She rents her own apartment and hopes to become a writer. "I've found that it's not necessary to have a crappy life," she says. Bobby Frazier...
...will immerse ourselves in any gimmick diet that promises weight loss while defying the laws of physics. Our body weight is the simple net sum of calories (from whatever source) ingested and expended. When we consume more than we burn, we get fat; when we burn more than we consume, we lose weight. If Dr. Atkins eats 6,000 calories of bacon cheeseburgers a day, he will soon become the blubber ball that so many Americans are. THOMAS M. GINN, M.D. Salisbury...
...Yale's got a good rushing attack, but they have a different approach than we do," Harvard senior running back Chris Menick said. "I mean our quarterback's a good runner too, but their quarterback is a great runner. They can get to you and burn you with either the quarterback or the running back...