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...Couch potatoes should think twice before running marathons, according to a Harvard researcher who found that under-trained runners who take on the 26.2-mile challenge are putting their hearts at risk. Individuals who trained for 35 miles per week or less before running a marathon exhibited temporary changes in both cardiac function and biochemistry indicating heart stress, according to the study by Harvard Medical School Instructor Malissa J. Wood. “The average person who runs is not doing themselves any favors by under-training for the marathon,” Wood said. Wood’s study...
...visit Holland, perhaps Holland can take up residence with you. Swiss furniture maker Vitra, which has made furniture by Ray and Charles Eames, Frank Gehry and Philippe Starck, introduces Dutch designer Hella Jongerius' Polder, a couch that mimics the Netherlands' flat landscapes, upholstered in six fabrics. Windmills not included...
...urban legends of our society is the supposedly growing trend of "boomerangs" - youngish adults who move back in with their parents. Nearly every news outlet including TIME has dug up some slob to represent this trend: a college grad couch potato who plays Grand Theft Auto all day, refusing to take a low-paying starter job or move out into the real world. Last week both USA Today and ABC's World News Tonight piled on the ridicule, thanks to yet another book on quarterlifers in a quagmire...
...There I was, holding the phone to my chest with one hand, splicing coils of smoke with the other. I imagined him down in Charleston sitting on the arm of his couch, dangling his feet. There he was, waiting for this college kid to come back on the phone and finish her interview so that, finally, he could untie his mask, let loose his hair, and hit the town...
...collected e-mailed statements from 22 students who are upset with the company’s service. He and his roommates, Paul B. Davis ’07-’08 and Ashwin Kaja ’07, said they’re still missing a couch and three rugs that they stored with the company. Lesser filed his insurance claim on Oct. 1. He said he contacted the company four more times before Kowitt hand-delivered the $525 reimbursement check yesterday morning. “We feel Harvard should never do business with Collegeboxes again...