Word: developable
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...seen them: perfectly toned celebrities on late-night television telling us that we too can develop rock-hard abdominal muscles. It's easy! Just slap down $149.99 for the Torso Track or $149.75 for the Ab-Doer and watch those unwanted inches melt from your waist. Americans shelled out tens of millions of dollars last year on various devices to firm up their flabby midriffs...
...fact is that many Americans don't have the genetic makeup to develop a visible six-pack. They are either unable to attain the requisite muscle mass or they can't lose enough fat to make a difference. Even if the underlying musculature is well developed, all it takes to obscure it is a layer of fat one-sixteenth of an inch thick. That's enough to exclude most healthy women as well as plenty of guys who do crunches every...
Taking a broader approach, researchers at San Diego State University compared 13 abdominal exercises for their ability to develop the rectus abdominis, or central muscle of the abdomen, and the external obliques on either side of the body. They concluded, in a report published in May, that the most effective exercises rotated the body and worked the abs the entire time. Among the winners: the bicycle maneuver--so called because it looks as if you are pedaling while lying flat on the floor--and exercises performed on the "Captain's Chair," a device typically found in gyms that helps hold...
...ascent of man is the need for defense and offense. Walking upright presented early man with a larger and fiercer profile to his enemies. It also freed his hands to use weapons and better attack his foes. This alteration provided humans with additional time to think, create and develop. BARRY STEVENS Arlington, Texas...
...prolonged use stops the production of melanin, a natural pigment that protects the skin from the sun, and increases the likelihood of skin cancers. Damaged skin cells also "make the skin very weak," says chemist Wangai. Veins show through and, over time, the skin may actually become darker and develop hard nodules. "But even when they know that, women keep using them," says Peris Wanjiru, a saleswoman in a Nairobi beauty shop. "They feel it doesn't matter how they will look in two or three years' time. What matters is how they look today...