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...know that exercise??can help prevent heart disease. But it was not always a closed case, at least not scientifically. In the 1960s, Harvard epidemiologist Dr. Ralph Paffenbarger Jr. set out to prove just that. In a pioneering study that tracked exercise and health, Paffenbarger and colleagues found that vigorous exercise could indeed lengthen life expectancy and combat chronic disease. Paffenbarger would also conclude that the benefits of exercise could be had even when starting late in life. The researcher practiced what he preached: at age 45, the once sedentary Paffenbarger, who died at 84, became a long-distance runner...
...Ebony Tower is a far less ambitious exercise???four stories, "a personal note," and a version of the medieval story of Eliduc. Fowles says he intended these as a series of "variations" on related themes; he leaves the reader to make the connections. In the title story, a young English artist and art critic named David Williams visits an old expatriate English painter, Henry Breasley, in his rural French farmhouse. Breasley, living with an old French couple and two young English birds, gets drunk, rants against Picasso and the century's other departures from the world as the eye sees...
Sadat is not the only one out on a limb. It is possible that the middleman in the current diplomatic exercise???the U.S.?and the two antagonists could all emerge feeling ill-used. The U.S. appears increasingly convinced that the Israelis have grown too rigid, as indeed they have. The Israelis feel that the Americans, particularly Rogers and his State Department, are so anxious to restore U.S. influence in the Arab world that they are willing to impose unacceptable risks on Israel. Golda Meir's government maintains that its policy of tenacity will compel the Arabs to come around...
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