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...rate during exercise should be 80% of the heart's maximum capacity; in 1980 that goal fell to 70%, then 60% in 1986. Last year it was a modest 50%. Says Linda Webb, a Weight Watchers spokeswoman: "The problem in the 1980s was that exercise was ! seen as a chore, beyond the norm. Now we recognize that all we have to do is normal things like walking, but just do it a little faster. It's the difference between a craze and common sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Couch Potatoes, Arise! | 8/9/1993 | See Source »

Watching the Crimson has become a chore. There's Harvard vs. Yale. Big game. So the fans come flocking. Harvard for one day in the year feels like a Big Ten school...

Author: By John C. Ausiello, | Title: No True Love | 6/10/1993 | See Source »

...community service at a boys' club. A consultant was instrumental in advising Miami moneyman and convicted tax cheat Victor Posner on his offer to establish shelters for the homeless in lieu of prison time. Onetime Wall Street legal eagle and insider trader Martin Siegel asked for and received the chore of running a children's computer camp. Securities fraudster Michael Milken is awaiting court approval for his plan to educate inner-city youth, a proposal that appears to have contributed to his early release from prison despite an initial 10-year jail sentence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Get Out of Jail, Not Quite Free | 5/24/1993 | See Source »

...fervent defenders of democracy object that it would rob the citizenry of its sovereignty. If average Americans value their votes so much, why is voter turnout perennially so low? A frightening percentage of the elegible voting population treats voting as an irritating chore. Why fight to keep something that half the population won't spend five minutes doing...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: Restrict Franchise to the Elite | 3/6/1993 | See Source »

...foreign affairs, the President-elect has been hit for adopting George Bush's Haitian refugee policy and the outgoing Administration's nuanced response to China's human-rights violations. As the chore changes from campaigning to governing, both of Clinton's "new" positions seem proper. The real test of Clinton's professed commitment to human rights for Haitians will turn on his efforts to change that nation's repressive policies. China is a trickier case, and Clinton's newly expressed caution is well placed. The U.S. indeed has "a big stake in not isolating" China. If Beijing continues its economic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Interest: Bash Him for the Right Reasons | 1/25/1993 | See Source »

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