Word: gainful
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This is the toughest part of the race for Rusch. Men tend to start out strong and finish weak; female racers, by contrast, gain momentum. "The first day is survival for me because everyone is so amped and they go out fast," says Rusch of the five-man, one-woman team she leads. "I'm just hanging on so I don't fall back." After just two hours, she has used up most of her glycogen--a form of energy derived from sugar and stored in muscles and certain organs--and her body starts running on fat and whatever calories...
Build your strength. If you're frail, you have the most to gain from strength training, which is key to long-term independence. Try to target all the major muscles in your trunk, legs and upper body with either free weights or exercise machines. Use enough weight to tire yourself out, but don't overexert or strain...
...journalist-diplomat Georges Ducrocq wrote 100 years ago, "When they cannot enjoy the countryside, the Koreans have their screens to provide them with the illusion of it." And though people in 21st century Paris can't go back to the kingdom of Choson, they have the Guimet exhibition to gain an enchanting sense of a country in love with its own beauty...
...outskirts of Harare, the capital. And Chinese traders are flooding the country with cheap shoes and clothes - and immigrants to sell them, too. The crackdown on Zimbabwean sellers will remove competition in this sector, alleges MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai. "The Chinese are not so interested in short-term material gain; they're after long-term influence and power in the region," says Isaac Maposa, director of Zimbabwe Institute, an opposition-aligned think tank. "But Mugabe has to look like he's thinking of them after all the help China's given...
Founder and CEO of thefacebook.com Mark E. Zuckerberg ’06-’07 said that the primary reason behind securing the capital was to gain greater flexibility in how the site displays advertisements, which will help him and his employees to expand features on the site...