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...marathon progressed, he was able to improve from an initial 9:00 pace—thanks to his strong cardiovascular fitness??to post a time that is quite impressive for a first-time competitor...
Leverett: “Well rounded meals...like doughnuts” “Getting in the gym and working on your fitness?? “A modest proposal” “An indirect indicator for differential provisioning in socially stratified societies?...
...Mass.—The final test was a mile walk. After racing to perform as many crunches in two minutes as possible, I couldn’t understand why it wasn’t a run that rounded out Harvard athletics’ “Operation: Summer Fitness?? preliminary test.Little did the Hemenway staffers know, after three years of running late to class (including two all the way from distant Mather House) I had become a professional speed-walker and de facto captain of the Olympic tourist-dodging team. Although some Fabio from Harvard Law School...
...Charles.” Undergraduates faced the prospect of having to demonstrate their “Americanism” in order to qualify for entry into many professions. There were loyalty tests for new teachers, background investigations for future civil servants, and “character and fitness?? committees waiting to vet budding lawyers to make sure that domestic communists, fellow travelers, and “pinkos” could not sap the vitals of America by teaching fifth-grade algebra or becoming licensed to practice estate planning in Iowa. The country was at war in Korea. There...
...some respects, psychologists and biologists provide us with explanations to rationalize our fickle love lives. It’s widely accepted that humans tend to be physically attracted to the best -looking people. Scientists reason that this physical attraction is an indicator of fitness??supposedly pointing to the anticipated fitness of our offspring. Yet this Darwinian match-making, based on the survival of the fittest, seems to go only so far in explaining our erratic and picky sexual desires...