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Anyone who wants to see the health benefits of municipal smoke-free ordinances need look no further than Pueblo, Colo. After much political back-and-forth, the city banned smoking in restaurants, offices and other indoor spaces in the summer of 2003 and started seeing results within months. In the year and a half before the ban, the city recorded 399 heart attacks; in the 18 months after the change, there were 108 fewer heart attacks. That 27% decrease alone, according to a study presented last week at the annual American Heart Association meeting, resulted in a savings...
...says.IN FOR THE NIGHTLedlie said that one discernible trend lies in the times of day when bicycles are stolen.“There is a lot more theft at night, especially between the hours of one and six in the morning,” Ledlie says.According to Ledlie, indoor storage would provide an easy solution. Taking bikes inside not only prevents theft, he says, but gets the bikes out of the elements and increases their longevity.But Ledlie says that option is often unavailable.“Indoor bike space is at a premium, and not sufficient at present...
...remarkable fall season of Harvard women’s tennis co-captains Elsa O’Riain and Melissa Anderson came to an end on Friday afternoon at the ITA National Indoor Championships in Columbus, Ohio. The Crimson doubles team, which had won the ITA Eastern Regionals to earn a berth in the exclusive 16-team doubles field of the National Indoors, was edged 9-8 in the quarterfinals by Jenna Long and Sara Anundsen of North Carolina. After rallying for a come-from-behind victory over Aurelija Miseviciute and Ela Kaluder of Arkansas in their opening match on Thursday...
...Boston’s Symphony Hall for the past three years. The Harvard squash teams’ traditional home in the Murr Center now includes the 13 glass-backed courts and one four-sided glass feature court, in addition to a temporary 700-seat squash arena located on the indoor tennis courts. “I really think that our facilities will be showcased to the community over the four or five days that the tournament will take place,” said Harvard squash coach Satinder Bajwa. “There will be around...
...realize the advantages of group exercise. “When I was a freshman, there were maybe three or four aerobics classes a day at the MAC,” she said. “Group exercise wasn’t a big deal. Now, we have an indoor cycling room, and seven or eight classes a day, classes fill up. There is huge demand.” According to Murdock, Harvard now offers 20 different classes such as yoga, pilates, and interval training that meet 47 times a week. Murdock also said all the instructors are nationally certified. Certification...