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...fitness system. Joel Ramirez, BreakAway's founder, put me on a stationary bike and placed an oxygen mask over my face. The mask was connected to a computer that measured my oxygen consumption and carbon dioxide output during a 20-min. stress test. With those data, plus my weight, height, age and gender, the computer created a report on my current health--including the ideal fat-burning and carbohydrate-burning heart-rate zones for me. Then the New Leaf system generated an eight-week daily fitness plan and uploaded it to New Leaf's website. (Additional assessments...
...other kids are willing to follow them. Research has shown that boys who are taller than their peers in adolescence tend to have more dominant, self-assured personalities in adulthood. On average, they earn higher salaries in adulthood, even though the others may have caught up to them in height. (See 9 kid foods to avoid...
Which means even if you didn't sign up for a subprime loan at the height of the housing bubble, the math can still come back to bite...
...good sci-fi film from a merely average one. That’s not to say that sci-fi movies are devoid of meaning or broader concerns. The widely mocked B movies of the 1950s were certainly characterized by tackiness, but they also explored clever political allegory at the height of the Cold War. In luring people back to Somerville year after year, the lineup of films is secondary to the festival’s unique communal experience, a theme that emerges repeatedly in conversations with both male and female audience members. (Contrary to any stereotypes...
...Brian Mulroney, both of Irish descent, became fast friends who enjoyed fishing together and singing duets. The closeness of their friendship was a significant factor in the eventual signing of NAFTA. But Lester Pearson, Prime Minister in the '60s, delivered a scathing antiwar speech in Washington at the height of the Vietnam War. The next day at the White House, Lyndon Johnson issued a stern reprimand: "You peed on my rug!" Relations between the two never recovered. And Richard Nixon once famously called Pierre Trudeau a "pompous egghead," to which Trudeau replied, "I've been called worse things by better...