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OUTBUFFING THE GRANDKIDS Older adults exercise more frequently than their teenage grandchildren, according to a study published by the market-research firm American Sports Data. The national survey indicated that 26% of people over 55 exercised at least 100 times in the past year, compared with 18% of those from ages 12 to17. Researchers said doctors are increasingly recommending weight-resistance training and moderate workouts to older patients...
...harsh, but she has few discernible beliefs other than a garbled echo of her father's nationalism and a disdain for regional autonomy. On July 22, when Wahid tried to declare a state of emergency and dissolve parliament, Megawati went to the movies to see Shrek with her grandchildren. On her second day in office, when she might have been lobbying the national assembly for her pick for Vice President, she attended a fashion show at a posh Jakarta hotel...
This week, the U.S. Bureau of Census released a batch of statistics that demographers and social scientists find fascinating. According to the numbers from last year?s population count, about one in five Americans don?t speak English at home, over 2 million grandparents are raising their grandchildren, and the number of adults working out of the homes has grown by a third the past ten years...
...dotcoms, it seems, either can't get enough customers, or get too many that spend too little (thus spending more on delivery costs than they make back on the sale of low-margin comestibles). If I have one clear vision of the future, it's of my slack-jawed grandchildren begging to hear again about what it was like to live in the height of the mythical door-to-door boom. Yes Virginia, you really could get a candy bar and a copy of Spartacus within minutes without stepping outside your front door. Of course, that was back before...
...Chapter Five: The End May 5, 2001: Hillegass dies of complications from a stroke. He is survived by his second wife, four children, a stepson and seven grandchildren...