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...prince for lunch and a pauper for dinner." Your big meal in the morning "will boost your energy throughout the day," the authors promise. That way, you'll be sated by nightfall and less likely to surf the fridge just before bedtime. Choose healthy foods like whole grains and lean protein. It's not necessary to break your fast with a sirloin steak, but neither is it against the rules...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Next Year's Diet Books | 12/10/2006 | See Source »

...students lean forward in their chairs, not wanting to miss a word of their lecture on Cauchy sequences. As if apprentices in the presence of a brilliant impressionist painter, they focus their attention on Gaitsgory’s canvas, their eyes darting to follow the flurry of bold, erratic strokes across the blackboard. Each nod marks a step closer to comprehension, but as the lecture progresses, brows begin to furrow...

Author: By Logan R. Ury, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Burden of Proof | 12/6/2006 | See Source »

...aged Garnett desperately tries to save the disappearing American Chestnut tree, crossing and re-crossing genes. Lusa, a newly widowed outsider, buries her grief in the insect world, stripping the complexities of human emotion down to the single filaments on the wing of a moth. And Deanna, a lean mountain woman, jealously guards a newly arrived coyote family in the forest...

Author: By Madeline K.B. Ross, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Prodigal Summer | 12/6/2006 | See Source »

...Next, we lean in the direction of our next stop, the John Harvard Statue. Unbeknownst to other tour-givers, the statue has more than three lies. The fourth fib is that John Harvard founded the school. In reality, Derek C. Bok, peace be upon him, founded it when he wrote the full contents of truth—“Ve Ri Tas”—on golden plates. Soon after that he moved to Utah, started Brigham Young University, and took his eleventh wife...

Author: By Peter J. Martinez and D. A. Wallach, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Bell Lap 2: Tomorrow’s Campus Tour, Today! | 11/29/2006 | See Source »

...opportunity for change." Limerick found hers through exercise. Instead of crying during her nightly Marty Robbins sessions, she began exercising to the music. "I was totally out of shape, and I started doing jumping jacks to the mournful song," she recalls. "It felt really good." Limerick continued to lean on her friends but found different ways to be with them. One took her shopping for a new wardrobe after Limerick lost 40 lbs. and she discovered her inner clotheshorse. Looking for new things to wear not only gave her something to do other than sitting around thinking about the past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going It Alone | 11/27/2006 | See Source »

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