Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which ignores Harvard's much-touted respect for diversity. Students generally refer to the characters in the stories and the subjects of the nonfiction books as "those people," a disconcerting phrase that emphasizes the distance between different ethnic and socio-economic groups. This makes those students who don't fit into the white middle class very uncomfortable...
Still here? Unregenerate vermin. You are not even fit to be the smallest flea on a bulldog's tail. What excuse can you still have...
...schools and programs: "If 100% of the youngsters are to get the education they are entitled to, we have to adapt to them -- go to the kids rather than expecting them to come to us. Like the addicted or the handicapped, Harvey Milk kids couldn't or wouldn't fit in with the school system. Are they entitled to an education...
...participants, all of whom were in good health at the start of the study, had died. And after allowing for various other health-affecting factors, including smoking, age, cholesterol levels, weight, blood pressure and family history of heart disease, they found that deaths were sharply higher in the least-fit category than in the second-most- sedentary group -- more than double for men and almost twice as high for women...
...most-fit groups, which included people in the habit of running up to 40 miles a 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...