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Regular exercise, the researchers found, is a critical factor in determining longevity. Men who walked nine or more miles a week (burning off at least 900 calories), for example, had a risk of death 21% lower than those who walked less than three miles a week. The optimum expenditure of energy seems to be about 3,500 calories a week, the equivalent of six to eight hours of strenuous bicycling or singles tennis. The Harvard men who worked out that much had half the risk of death of those who did little or no exercise. Moreover, the study showed that...
...Until this weekend, I thought Harrington would be much tougher," Goldman said. After Weld's remarks, Goldman said he did not view Harrington as a factor in the race...
...joined by Joe Kilminster, vice president for booster programs; Jerald Mason, senior vice president, and Calvin Wiggins, vice president for space projects. A dozen Thiokol engineers in Utah were also participating. Boisjoly presented six charts that had been transmitted to the others and argued that "lower temperature was a factor" in O-ring performance. Lund, the highest engineering officer, said flatly that unless the temperature reached at least 53 degrees , "I don't want...
What made Chun soften his position? One factor may have been the fall last week of Ferdinand Marcos. At the luncheon, Chun was reported to have said that he did not want South Korea to become a "second Philippines." The opposition has also watched events in Manila. Indeed, Kim Dae Jung and his wife were acquainted with Philippine President Corazon Aquino and her late husband Benigno Aquino when all four were in exile in the U.S. in the early 1980s. Said Kim: "Next it is Korea's turn...
Similar programs at Yale, Stanford, the University of Chicago and other law schools have been operating for years, Shavell said, adding that this was one factor in Harvard's decision to establish a similar one here. Before the founding of the new program, "Harvard was behind," he said...