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...baby-boom generation heading into its 50s--prime time for arthritis. Add five decades of jogging (in less than perfect form), high-impact aerobics and fast-breaking sports like football, soccer, tennis and basketball, whose quick stops and sharp pivots do maximum damage to the knees and hips. (Gen Xers can look forward to the effects of video games on the thumbs, another body part that's particularly prone to osteoarthritis.) Finally, top it all off with a generation of Americans who are heavier than ever and whose weight is literally squeezing the life out of their joints...
...diplomatic one. Blix, as head of the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC), and Mohammed El Baradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, held a preliminary meeting with Iraq's Foreign Minister Naji Sabri. Then they had two rounds of talks with Saddam's point man, Lt. Gen. Amer Saadi, a British-educated engineer who once headed Iraq's weapons programs...
...Gen Akbar is an urbane, educated and thoughtful military man who is currently teaching himself English. A Soviet-educated professional soldier, he had been one of many who left the communist regime during the Soviet occupation to join the resistance in the Panjshir Valley led by the charismatic Ahmad Shah Massoud. He fought in the Northern Alliance against the Taliban and was on the frontlines during last year's U.S.-led bombing campaign. In the new order of president Hamid Karzai, Akbar is a man on the rise. Though he owes his position to the powerful defense minister, Mohammed Qasim...
Hunt remembers the weeks leading up to the 1993 commencement featuring Lt. Gen. Colin Powell as speaker as particularly stressful. Coming at the height of the national debate over gays in the military, Powell’s appearance drew heavy fire...
...tailored his syllabus to meet the demands of Project Health—from the first day, his students repeated phrases such as, “Eske ou gen manje pou tout mwa?” or, roughly, “Are you running out of food at the end of the month...