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...achieve better health and fitness is through life-style changes in exercise and eating habits. People should look for fun, easy ways to get more active every day. The key is for them to pick exercise activities they enjoy, because they are more likely to stick to them. Crash diets and fanatical exercise regimes simply do not foster adherence...
...Latin America as a whole. Already the uncertainty about Washington's course of action is accelerating the Mexican economy's downturn. Some 4,000 businesses closed in the first four weeks of 1995 because of high interest rates, lack of sales and tight credit since the peso crash. Predictions of the annual inflation rate for 1995 run to 20% or more, and many economists expect the economy to shrink at least 2%, even if the U.S. guarantee is approved. Government and private analysts contend that while direct foreign investment will fall only slightly below last year's $7.5 billion, portfolio...
...with a combination of strict discipline, inspirational instruction and Irish charm. They brought her an astounding mix of maternal pride and grief: the eldest daughter Rosemary was retarded and was institutionalized in 1941. Joe Jr. was killed in World War II. In 1948 daughter Kathleen died in a plane crash in southern France. Then the world mourned with Rose when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963 and again when his brother Robert was slain in 1968. Her husband died the following year. ``God does not send us a cross heavier than we can bear,'' she once said...
...that $3.9 trillion of the reward was captured by the fortunate top one-half of 1%. That works out to a $3.9 million bonanza per wealthy household. Wolff says the last time the national assets were so unevenly distributed was in 1929, just before the stock-market crash...
MARIA LA BAJA: Preying on Victims Colombians are heartsick over the plight of nine-year-old Erika Delgado, the sole survivor of a plane crash that took the lives of 51 people, including her mother, father and younger brother, outside Cartagena on Jan. 11. Suffering from fractures and pneumonia, the grief-stricken child has begun to recall the painful details of the accident. Probably pushed from the plane by her mother after it struck the ground and split apart, she landed in a bed of algae and water lilies. Then, according to Erika, someone approached, ignored her cries for help...