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...Body. Devised for kindergarten through junior high by the American Health Foundation, it uses workbooks, skits and rhymes to handle such topics as choosing "heart- healthy" foods and resisting the bad habits of peers. In addition, youngsters get individual "health passports" on which they can record annual figures for height, weight, blood pressure and blood cholesterol. A surprisingly high cholesterol reading for Houston Sixth-Grader David Hawkins triggered a whole new way of eating for his family. Meals once heavy with beef and fried foods are now dominated by pasta and vegetables. "It's pretty gross," says David...
...than 14 years after the Dow leaped the 1000 mark, the big moment finally arrived. As Big Board floor traders cheered and filled the air with confetti, the closing bell rang last Thursday with the index solidly perched at 2002.25. Then on Friday, after briefly falling from its record height, the Dow rallied to its sixth straight gain of the new year and finished the week...
...back at least to football's Detroit Lions' and Chicago Bears' attempting to identify with the established baseball teams, the Detroit Tigers and Chicago Cubs. Another kind of identity problem forced the Cincinnati Reds, America's oldest professional sports team, to change their name to the Redlegs during the height of the cold war. One Cincinnati sportswriter objected on the ground that since the Moscow Reds were the newcomers, they should be asked to change their name...
...their release. But the crowd was in no mood to disperse, despite subzero temperatures and a fresh two-inch snowfall. Instead, it picked up additional demonstrators in a march through the campus and from nearby People's University, and set out across White Stone Bridge toward Tiananmen. At its height the throng numbered around...
...much to get across. The face creams. The foot powders. The hair sprays. The hair growers. Have you learned to grow hair? Does such a thing matter? The height of us: an average of 5 ft. 3 1/2 in. for women, 5 ft. 9 in. for men. You must be taller now. Have you raised the height of the baskets? I mean in basketball. Do you play it still? And football, and baseball? You must be playing baseball; we call it the national pastime, if you do not count self- inspection. (A future without baseball?) Did I mention hibachis, Exercycles...