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Folks who are lean are more likely to fidget, stand up or pace about than their moderately obese counterparts, according to a study of 20 self-identified couch potatoes conducted by researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. For 10 days scientists measured their subjects' every movement, using sensors embedded in specially designed underwear. The 10 lean participants were more active even after they were required to gain weight...
...offense lurched its way through the first quarter, Fitzpatrick’s body language on the sidelines began to change. With every incomplete pass, he would fidget and lick his fingers. With every failed third-down conversion, he would move a step closer to Murphy, chin strap fastened...
...ushered, past a dusky terrace of Parisian café tables oriented to face the sidewalk, just to get noticed and to have their application assessed. Those who’ve just popped in without a reservation should prepare for purgatory (but what a luxurious purgatory it is: Customers fidget on purposely distressed leather sofas while they anxiously await admission). All this entrance-intrigue is bathed in the lurid, erotic glow of red lamps clasped in the fangs of ornate snake-candelabra, or coyly veiled in rice paper (wasn’t it Woody Allen who used a red light bulb...
...game, Thomas turns to his roommate and official scorekeeper, Daniel L. Suzman ’05, to remind him to yell out the score every few moves. Suzman announces that the two are neck and neck, with Washkowitz slightly in the lead. As play continues, Washkowitz begins to fidget even more spastically, alternately sipping coffee, puffing from cigarettes and flicking at his legs, his hands almost as busy as his pink Oxford shirt. Complimenting Thomas on his play, Washkowitz is surprised by the low score of his rival’s word. “I hate that, when...
...success still doesn't sit well with Kaufman. Media interest makes him fidget. "Ten years ago, I would read an article about somebody, and it would talk about how great their life is," he says. "And I wasn't in that situation. I felt less then as a human being." He finds it incomprehensible that anybody would want to be him. His own yearning to be someone else has only recently "leveled off into just a feeling of missing something," he says. But his youthful days as a loser served him well. They have given his misfits the stamp...