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...started. Begin with light weights--about 40% of the heaviest weight you can manage--and work your way up gradually. Remember that the goal of weight training is to work muscles against resistance until they fatigue. Once your muscles no longer tire, you can add 5 to 10 lbs. To be effective, according to the A.H.A., you'll need to work out two or three times a week, performing one set of eight to 10 different exercises, eight to 15 times each. Sounds like a lot, but each workout can take as little as 10 minutes...
...Giordano runs the World Wildlife Fund's Natural Saltwater Reserve in Paceco, Italy, and its Center for the Rehabilitation of Wild Animals in Messina. The center's aviary houses some two dozen falcons and buzzards in various stages of convalescence. The injured birds, who collectively consume more than 13 lbs. of meat each day, have a home for life, and those that recover are turned loose. "They can't say thanks," says Giordano, "but the best thanks is watching them fly free again...
...donations could be more efficiently distributed and provide high-quality merchandise for the agency's two thrift shops. Since the summer of 1998, some 50 people have completed a six-month training program at Pine Street's sprawling warehouse in Boston's Jamaica Plain, handling about 5,000 lbs. of clothing a day. For the first time, the operation is becoming self-sustaining, and, says Schorr, "we are now funding a training program that we might otherwise have had to close." It's a better way of doing good, and for social entrepreneurs, that is the real bottom line...
...next movie is Martin Scorsese's The Gangs of New York, about the conscription riots in Manhattan in the 1860s, and DiCaprio has been forcing himself to bulk up for the part. At 5 ft. 11 in. and 175 lbs., he claims he can bench-press 205 lbs. "This is the biggest I've ever been," he says. I ask if he's been eating a lot of sushi and yogurt, and he mocks me for my unmanly choices. Then we order room service, and he gets a burger and I almost order the sea bass. "That was pretty wussy...
...something. Ferret ownership has doubled in the past five years; 6 million are now in U.S. homes, placing them third in popularity among mammals, trailing cats (55 million) and dogs (50 million). Adult ferrets weigh between 1 1/2 lbs. and 3 lbs., perfect for compact living spaces, and the species' record of good behavior--according to the Animal Health Institute, ferrets are 200 times less likely to bite than dogs--makes them ideal first pets. Then there's the ferret's hip intellectual profile. "They're not pack animals," says Shefferman, "and they don't learn by rote, like dogs...