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...people have MacGyvered setups like it on their own. The first thing it does after you turn it on is ask your weight, which is a little confrontational. It then asks your weight every time you use it, as if to say, "Jeez, still?" Visitors--you get more office drop-bys when you have a weird walking desk than when you have doughnuts--sweetly avert their eyes as the weight question comes up. Apart from that, my week using it was not unlike a regular workweek. Here's the, ahem, rundown...
...Veering off track. Resisting the urge to Google Are we there yet? No longer quite so friendly to drop-bys. ("Yes, it's a treadmill." "Not that difficult, but I'm a practiced walker." "I am working...
...economic crisis following the Soviet collapse, music was the one thing that held the island together, a common passion for both revolutionaries and reactionaries. The government understood its power; that's why supergroup La Charanga Habanera was banned for months in the '90s after using a military helicopter to drop the group onstage for a stripteasing, innuendo-filled concert on national TV. It was, someone clearly decided, too decadent, too American...
...even if that's not the case, selling after such a big drop makes no sense for most people. Dozens of studies have shown that if you wait for confirmation that a recession has ended before you buy, you'll all but miss the corresponding rebound in stocks. One model dating back to 1926 shows that a high-quality portfolio of just 60% stocks (and 40% bonds) returns an average of 11% per year in the first five years following a trough in the economy. That may be all you'll need to get even...
...There is no longer an American Dream, at least for the moment.' VICTOR CLARK, director of a Tijuana-based human-rights organization that works with illegal migrants, on the 42% drop in Mexican emigration over the past two years...