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...researchers measured fitness in a straightforward way: they put people on a treadmill, set them walking, and periodically increased first the incline and then the speed of the treadmill until the walkers could no longer continue. The subjects were grouped into five different fitness levels based on their performance and followed for the next eight years...
...week, death rates tended to be lower still, but the improvement was not so dramatic. In short, says Carl Caspersen, a physical-activity epidemiologist at the federal Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta: "You don't have to be a marathoner to greatly reduce your mortality. After that first jump in activity, you're not buying that much more reduced risk...
Some Protestant denominations have landed on the liberationist side. The Unitarian Universalists openly welcome gay clergy. The United Church of Christ, which in 1972 became the first major denomination to ordain an avowedly homosexual clergyman, subsequently stated that homosexual orientation is no barrier to ordination, leaving open the matter of ministers' active sexual behavior. The United Church of Canada is in an uproar over a similar policy issued last year...
...Soviet government's first reaction to the 1986 catastrophe at the Chernobyl nuclear plant was to hide it from the world. Only when confronted with irrefutable evidence did officials admit that one of the plant's reactors had exploded, releasing a radioactive cloud that spread over the country and across Europe...
...most Colombian journalists simply shoulder the risk. Says Enrique Santos Calderon, an El Tiempo columnist and Sunday editor who spent several months in self-imposed exile following a bombing at his home, then returned to his outspoken ways: "We journalists aren't soldiers, but we have become the first line of defense...