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...good news: it is important for the young to stay lean, but a little heft helps people live longer, according to a federal researcher at the Gerontology Research Center in Baltimore. The bad news: many obesity and cardiovascular specialists say that lifelong leanness is still the desirable goal...
...same, but people in their 50s and 60s can afford to be anywhere from 4 to 37 Ibs. heavier. Andres, a gerontologist who has been studying the effect of weight gain on aging for more than five years, feels that after the age of 20, almost any normally lean person can put on about a pound a year...
...church affiliation, religion is serious and real to him. As his friend Roy Blount says, "He's been off to college, gotten divorced, learned to drink. But he hasn't severed his roots." Keillor likes the old hymns, he says, because "they express faith, which I lean towards as the basis of the good life...
...which Lombroso's work L'Homme Criminel was a textbook. One day the professor read to us from the book certain characteristics by which born criminals could be identified, some of which were "profusion of hair on the head, sparsity of hair on the face, and lean jaws constantly in motion," whereupon one of the students called out, "You have just described my wife!" Frank Jost Newson Edmonton, Alta...
...their second round, Hagler pressed the advantage of his deeper strength and resolve against Hearns' greater height and reach until Tommy teetered simply from lack of leverage. Trying to lean far enough away from Hagler to hook him, Hearns sent himself sprawling a couple of times. Hagler punched and pushed him to the ropes. During the final training, Hearns had displayed himself in a casino ballroom complete with aerobic girls, while Hagler locked the door at Johnny Tocco's downtown gym. "I wanted to be able to smell a gymnasium," he explained, "to get back to what got me where...