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...nothing left to blow, Anne Spellacy, a registered nurse, tells me to keep blowing. The results are good; the volume of air, known as forced vital capacity (FVC), expelled by my lungs measures 5.16 liters per sec., 109% of what is predicted for a man my age, weight and height. Pulmonary capacity goes down with age, which is why older people tend to get out of breath faster than the young. A typical 30-year-old man of my height and weight would have an FVC of 5.63. Even two years makes a difference; at 50, my number would have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diary Of A Mid-Life Checkup | 6/15/1998 | See Source »

...these movies were small, intense, black and white, ideally suited to the psychological realism of the Stanislavskian Method, as it came to be known; ideally suited, as well, to Brando's questing spirit. But in the '50s, as he reached the height of his powers, Hollywood sank to the nadir of its strength. Competing with TV, it embraced color, wide screen, spectacle--and was looking for bold, uncomplicated heroes to fill its big, empty spaces. Brando looked (and felt) ludicrous in this context...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Actor MARLON BRANDO | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

...timing -- at the height of the commencement season -- is obviously planned to put Democrats on the spot and on record 'against prayer,' " says TIME religion correspondent Richard Ostling. "And voters will hear all about it when the coalition hands out its 'report cards' in the fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Church and State Collide in the House | 6/4/1998 | See Source »

...Prevention through ergonomics. Harvard's furniture does not comfortably accommodate many students. I am 5'6" (slightly above average height for a woman), but if I sit at the desk and chair Harvard supplied in my room, the surface of my desk is a full seven inches above the height recommended by UHS. When I tried going to libraries instead, I discovered that the furniture in Lamont, Cabot, my House library and my department's library also had desks uncomfortably high. If it is prohibitively expensive to buy new, adjustable chairs for dorm rooms, there needs to be at least...

Author: By Anne L. Brody, | Title: Preventing the New Plague | 6/3/1998 | See Source »

...were convinced that we could save theworld," she says.Crimson File PhotoACTING UP: The class of 1973 arrivedat the height of protest, but as the Vietnam Warended, activism entered its twilight...

Author: By Stephanie K. Clifford, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Class of 1973 | 6/2/1998 | See Source »

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