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...person sits on a special scale and is dunked into a vat of water. Because fat is lighter than water, a person weighs less underwater. The land and submerged weights are used to calculate body fat. Another method, called electrical-impedance testing, is based on the fact that fat content affects how well the body conducts electricity. Electrodes are attached to hands and feet, and a small current is applied briefly. Readings measure the amount of resistance to the current, and are used to determine the percentage of fat. The simplest and least expensive technique is the skin-fold test...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: Off The Scales and into the Tub | 11/16/1987 | See Source »

...their fans' deportment that amazed the country, so used to New York City trashing its stadium or Detroit setting fire to the neighborhood. From the first game to the last, both won by the series' MVP Frank Viola, Minnesotans were content to twirl cotton hankies for Kirby Puckett and to blow tin whistles at the Cardinals. Gracious winning was the story of the year in baseball. When Minnesota finally won something, it knew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Sight For Sore Ears | 11/9/1987 | See Source »

Holy Cross carries an 8-0 record, the number-one position in Division I-AA and a reputation for unholy sportsmanship into today's Crimson-Crusader showdown in Worcester. The Cross likes to get opponents down and then make them eat mud. The Cross is not content to merely put you on the ropes. It wants to knock you out of the ring. And then spit...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Unholy Crusaders | 11/7/1987 | See Source »

...insure their substantive content is more than a sham, the court will have to move in the direction of proportional representation," Bell said...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: Bell Says Minorities Need Proportional Vote | 11/4/1987 | See Source »

...their currencies against the dollar, even if it meant cutting into their profit margins. "The average foreign producer is probably selling at a loss right now," says Stephen Roach, a senior economist at the Morgan Stanley investment firm. Another factor is a reluctance among many U.S. businesses, which feel content with America as their main marketplace, to take advantage of the falling dollar to expand their sales abroad. Says Vladimir Pucik, assistant professor of international business at the University of Michigan: "What many American companies are doing is concentrating on defending their own territory. That's not enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Crash: In The Shadows of the Twin Towers | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

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