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...across Route Barracuda waving sad little white flags. As a family shuffles past, a Green Beret weapons sergeant bellows for them to be stopped. "Who's that red-headed guy?" he asks. The men are sifted out, five identified as suspicious. Flashes of defiance and anger raise suspicions. "Hey, flex-cuff 'em," orders a Green Beret. Chemical swabs read positive for explosives on two of the men. Masked informants identify three--all brothers--as snipers, the other two as a rocket-propelled-grenade team. Across the battlefield, insurgents attempting to slip out of Sarai mix with civilians. Five dressed...
...mondo free-lance gig from a muscle-magazine publisher. According to documents filed with the SEC, just days before taking office in 2003, Schwarzenegger signed a five-year consulting deal, worth at least $1 million annually, with a subsidiary of American Media Inc., publisher of Muscle & Fitness and Flex. His pay was pegged in part to ad revenues, and last September the Governor vetoed a bill that would have imposed regulations on high school athletes' use of performance-enhancing supplements, which advertise heavily in the magazines...
...carved out of the lower back so that it becomes virtually animate, bending like two independent pieces. "One day I took an X-Acto knife on one of our little models," Stumpf recalls, "and I just cut that slip in there. I knew right away it would work." Flex and absolute structural integrity without gimmicks: the chair is its material and structure. In addition, the designers engineered a novel tilt mechanism. Because the pivot is forward, at a point behind the knees, leaning backward in an Equa does not lift one's feet off the floor inexorably...
...Weight lift, do calisthenics or any sport that makes you flex muscles repetitively...
Even fitness guru Kathy Smith has set aside her free weights to undulate in a new DVD, Flex Appeal: A Belly Dance Workout. Says Smith: "My hope was to bring belly dancing to a person who would be too intimidated to take a class. I saw there was a need for something a little different for the mainstream audience...