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...started, I went to BreakAway Performance in San Francisco, one of some 400 gyms in the U.S. that can perform a $250 "metabolic assessment." This test is part of the New Leaf's structured fitness system. Joel Ramirez, BreakAway's founder, put me on a stationary bike and placed an oxygen mask over my face. The mask was connected to a computer that measured my oxygen consumption and carbon dioxide output during a 20-min. stress test. With those data, plus my weight, height, age and gender, the computer created a report on my current health--including the ideal...
Last year, Kim moved to Washington, D.C., where he served as the Director of Planning, Policy, and Finance at the E.L. Haynes Public Charter School. He and the school’s founder, Jennifer C. Niles, met when she taught at Phillips Academy, where Kim attended high school. The two felt such a strong professional affinity that Niles held a position open for him when she opened the charter school, said Emmeline K. Owyang ’93, one of Kim’s sisters...
...airline’s maiden flight from San Francisco to Boston, Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals—in drag as usual–welcomed the travelers on arrival. The Pudding’s plan was to give their signature kiss to Richard Branson, the founder and president of Virgin, during the press conference about the new flights to Boston, said Pudding member Joshua E. Lachter ’09. But the day before the press conference was to take place, Branson heard about the Pudding’s plan and he wanted...
Thomas J. Donahue is the founder of Active Learning Systems...
...whether a young Henry Luce (founder of Time magazine) actually laid naked in a coffin and told the tales of his early sex life during his Skull and Bones initiation, or if William F. Buckley jumped into a mud pie as part of his hazing, or whether any of the three Bush Bonesman (Prescott, H.W., and W.) really received a gift of $15,000 and the guarantee of a lifetime of financial security upon being selected - all these rumors, publicized over the years by Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times and numerous independent book authors, might never...