Word: gymnasium
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...success to "titanic work, military discipline and special diet." He adds, "But it allows you to do miracles almost overnight." Training conditions have improved greatly since Comaneci's time. When Comaneci, who now runs a gymnastics academy in Norman, Oklahoma, trained in Deva, the apparatus was antiquated, the gymnasium was stifling, and there was little money to be made from the sport. Today athletes get luxury treatment by comparison, she says. "It's more like Ritz-Carlton today." They sleep in air-conditioned rooms, have bathrooms with Jacuzzis, and train on the latest equipment. The gymnasts' motivation has never been...
...seems grimly appropriate for this exercise in pseudo democracy. Residents of the capital jokingly refer to it as the "concentration camp," despite the government's assurance that attendees?who are not allowed to leave the barracks during the convention?have been furnished with "TV, karaoke, newspapers, movies, stage show, gymnasium and golf course." The 1,076 delegates, most of them handpicked by the regime, have been issued a list of stern guidelines. According to the state-run New Light of Myanmar newspaper, "delegates are advised to put on suitable clothes, to avoid taking a bath at unreasonable times, and [should...
...certainly to be in this country, where everything was abundant, where there had been no destruction, there were no bombed buildings. And of course, the contrast between the liberty of the kids in Brooklyn high schools and a boys’ Gymnasium in Poland. It was a century of difference,” Begley says...
Some of the most important anti-obesity lessons must be delivered in the gymnasium. Sallis and the others want the nation's schools to revive the tradition of daily physical-education classes and make sure those classes provide an adequate workout. Studies have shown that in a typical elementary-school gym class, each kid engages in moderate to vigorous activity for only about 3 minutes. Sallis' group has devised a program called SPARK (Sports, Play and Active Recreation for Kids) that ensures at least 15 minutes of activity for every child, which has achieved measurable improvements in fitness...
When he moved into his suite just a short jog from Hemenway Gymnasium this past September, Evan J. Sperber ’07 chose to plaster the walls of his Canaday bedroom with dozens of pictures of Speedo-wearing, oiled-up body builders instead of putting up the typical bikini-clad Sports Illustrated models. “I don’t look at them sexually,” explains Sperber. “I look at them because they remind me that I don’t want to become a Harvard intellectual.” Sperber?...