Word: fitness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...This from the man who told us four years ago, “I don’t think our troops ought to be used for what’s called ‘nation-building’.”) Kerry ought to fight back with a moniker fit for Bush. “Asleep at the wheel,” a phrase we have heard many times during these past few weeks of Senate hearings, is actually a fair description of Bush’s record on everything from global terrorism to global warming. If Kerry dares...
...Courses ought to combine substantive knowledge with the big academic questions in a compelling way that competes with—rather than dumbs down—departmental offerings. These new courses should attempt to provide students with intriguing and provocative interdisciplinary, issue-based and integrative courses that do not fit within existing departments. By doing so, they will allow students to gain insight into a specific scientific issue but also to think critically about the methods employed in the natural sciences...
Administrators are “trying to figure out how best to take advantage of these diverse resources and how the CID’s programs ought to fit into this landscape,” Wrinn wrote. “The University is committed to a vibrant research program in international development.” But in an interview with The Crimson in October, Rogofff said that the CID “is the only development center at Harvard. Harvard needs a development center...
...carb claims can get foodmakers into trouble--call it carbage. That's because the Food and Drug Administration has yet to define what constitutes a low-or light-or reduced-carb anything. Hence the proliferation of fuzzier labeling terms like carb smart, carb conscious, carb aware and carb fit. Russell Stover, for example, received a warning letter from the agency about the name of its Low Carb line of chocolates. The company has offered to change the name but hopes it won't have to since the FDA announced in March that the agency will come up with a definition...
...women feel bad about their own bodies. New research shows that the muscle-bound hunks in TV and print ads can affect guys too. Psychologists at the University of Central Florida studied 158 male college students, average age 21, and found that those who were shown TV commercials featuring fit, muscular, sometimes bare-chested men were more depressed and had more body dissatisfaction than students who watched neutral ads. In fact, the latter group reported a decrease in depression after seeing the non-appearance-related ads. Who says men aren't sensitive...