Word: fitting
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Senior Editor Jose M. Ferrer III, Associate Editor Anastasia Toufexis and Reporter-Researcher Georgia Harbison make up the Health & Fitness team. Promises Ferrer: "We want to take a newsy story and approach it with enthusiasm and a careful eye. We won't be carried away by faddism." Says Toufexis, a veteran medical writer who likes ballet, gymnastics, diving and bicycling: "I used to be obsessive, but now I enjoy exercise in moderation." Harbison, who is a runner, gymnast and tennis player, believes in the long-term benefits of sport. Says she: "I'm not out to beat other people...
...FIT FOR LIFE, Diamond...
...already one of the world's great word mills, publishing more than a billion pages in documents a year. But its football-field-size printing plant will be taxed by the nonstop flow of oratory. To fit in all the speechmaking anticipated in the final week of the anniversary commemoration, U.N. officials are searching for a diplomatic way to hold the pronouncements of visiting statesmen to 15 minutes apiece. Their solution: dignitaries will be warned that if their eloquence runs long, "night meetings will be required with all the ensuing consequences." Dire consequences indeed: cocktail parties delayed and curtain times...
Mutual traditions of gentility have often provided a bond between Southerners and the British. So no one should gape if the role of a Southern belle seems to fit Lesley-Anne Down better than a custom-made bodice. In the 12-hr. pre- Civil War saga North and South, scheduled to air on ABC in early November, British-born Down, 31, plays the refined daughter of a Louisiana Frenchman who marries a man she does not love. "He turns out to be a fiend," says Down, who draws no parallels to her ongoing real-life divorce from Director William Friedkin...
...pint of ice cream while doing laps between the kitchen and the TV set. "There are trends toward improvement," declares Dr. Michael McGinnis, director of the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. "The great majority know the importance of fitness. But they have not taken the action themselves. Americans are not as fit as they think they...