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...properly executed crunch may not be as impressive as a sit-up, but the goal is to isolate and strengthen the muscles of the abdomen, not to show off. All you really need to do, after lying flat on your back on the floor, is raise your shoulders an inch or two in the air and slowly lower them 15 to 20 times. Keep your belly button pulled in; you'll notice the difference right away. (Push-ups are still...
...factory’s 18-inch concrete floors—thick enough to support huge vats of melted sugar—made it an ideal bomb shelter for the city of Cambridge during World...
...male” outfit is alarmingly similar to the androgynous comfort clothes I usually wear, making me question why I even bother trying to change my appearance before trying to pass. I’m already frequently mistaken for a man. When my hair was cropped to a half-inch buzz, I was often asked to leave women’s bathrooms by crusading gender do-gooders who couldn’t see beyond their narrow corridor of femininity...
...work with CASAH: large portions of the student body hostile and distrustful of Harvard’s willingness to change; a University with, at best, a spotty history on the issue of sexual violence; and an understanding that there was a lot to be done. Each month a two-inch thick binder arrived in the mail, filled with articles on sexual violence to be read in preparation for the Committee’s next meeting. We met with individual students, student groups, faculty, lawyers, administrators, mental health clinicians and more. It is safe to say we both learned an immense...
...pile of dead leaves not 20 meters from Uday's office was a refugee from a medieval dungeon: an iron maiden. About two meters tall, a meter wide and just deep enough to contain a grown man, the iron sarcophagus-shaped device was worn from use; rusty three-inch nails lined the inside of its doors and walls, pointing inward; they'd lost some of their sharpness. A reporter who put the structure upright and stepped inside determined that the maiden was still capable of performing her lethal function. The device was brought to TIME's attention by a group...