Word: fitter
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Here's what led me back to the trial: first, I didn't want to lose the potential benefit. Second, I'm middle aged and in pretty good shape, and thus younger and fitter than most people with my flavor of cancer. I figured the slightly elevated heart risk was, for me, a more manageable proposition. That's pure rationalization, of course. The bonus round: for an aging gym rat, Celebrex is a wonder at relieving the aches and pains that come from too much exercise...
...RETIRING. LANCE ARMSTRONG, 33, six-time Tour de France winner; after this year's Tour ends in July. Armstrong, who overcame testicular cancer, told reporters covering the Tour de Georgia, probably his last U.S. event, that he missed his three children and his younger, fitter body, saying: "It's not an old man's race...
Retiring. Lance Armstrong, 33, six-time Tour de France winner; after this year's Tour ends in July. Armstrong, who overcame testicular cancer in the late 1990s, told reporters covering the Tour de Georgia, probably his last U.S. event, that he missed his three children and his younger, fitter body. "It's not an old man's race," he said...
...come overnight. At the annual shareholders meeting of oil company SK Corp. in Seoul on March 11, some shareholders, led by Sovereign Asset Management, failed to oust chairman Chey Tae Won from the board, even though he was convicted in 2003 of accounting and securities fraud. Sovereign CEO James Fitter called the decision "a missed opportunity for shareholders to place the most competent and ethical leadership" at SK. That opportunity is likely to come again...
...Regiment of Marines--2-2, for short. In mid-March they arrived in Iraq. Pantano prepared his platoon by working the men hard. His men grumbled--enlisted men call officers like Pantano "motarded"--motivated to the point of retardation. But he believed that the more they trained, the fitter they were, the more chance they had of surviving a real war. The effort paid off. In more than 40 combat operations, the platoon suffered one casualty--a shrapnel nick from incoming mortar...