Word: dreading
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Students who dread the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC) need no longer worry—losing weight and staying healthy is possible just by doing laundry, bowling, or gardening, according to a new book by a Harvard Medical School researcher. Dr. Harvey B. Simon’s new book “The No Sweat Exercise Plan: Lose Weight, Get Healthy, and Live Longer” says that slight modifications to most people’s daily lives are enough for weight loss, disease prevention, and overall health. “For years, I believed that in order to benefit from...
...free to call me Gretel, Greta, Gretchen, Rita, Margie, Margery, Madge, Peg, Peggy, Pog, Maisie, Meg, Mog, and Daisy. Well, maybe not Pog—I’ve got to draw the line somewhere.The nickname and I have a very close, and often bizarre, relationship. I began to dread the appearance of substitute teachers in elementary school who, taking attendance, would utter “Margaret” as my classmates giggled and I gently corrected with “Maggie.” From the day I was born I had two identities. I was a double namesake...
...season, and the subsequent return to respectability became the emotional preamble to another possibly historic run. Sullivan spent two years preparing and seasoning his team to be an Ivy contender. The constant concern was to strike the tenuous balance between exposure and humiliation, confidence and self-doubt, hunger and dread. To lose more than 20 games would have been disappointing, but to fail to learn anything from those defeats and to fail to improve would have been deadly. Last season, the Crimson rebounded for the third-largest turnaround in the modern era of its history, winning eight more contests than...
...course, the dread and frenzy around premature burial is not unique to the post-9/11 or Internet era; there was the Baby Jessica McClure well-rescue story in 1987. One of the first such media circuses happened in 1925, when spelunker Floyd Collins was trapped in Kentucky's Sand Cave. The world was kept on tenterhooks, and 10,000 people a day, news reports said, showed up to gawk and picnic at the rescue site. After Collins was found dead, 17 days later, songs were written, and the incident became the basis for a musical, the Robert Penn Warren...
...Kathie Klarreich is based in Miami and covers Haitian affairs for Time. Her book "Madame Dread: A Tale of Love, Vodou and Civil Strife in Haiti" was published recently by Nation Books. (madamedread.com...