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...rats like Priscilla Silva of Whittier, Calif., have found fitness nirvana in belly dance. A project manager for an entertainment company, Silva says she got bored by her old six-day-a-week weight-training routine at the gym. After 21/2 years of belly dance, she says, "I'm lean in different places, like my abdominals, hips and inner thighs." Best of all, "you don't even realize you're following a workout regimen because you're so caught up in the music and movement." Silva says she has no desire to set foot in a gym ever again...
Though that matchup doesn’t lean in either direction, preventing Harvard’s offense from gaining any traction will be crucial to a Wildcats victory and a shot at advancing to the regional final...
...goals within five feet of the net. He gets there, gets the rebounds. He doesn’t play on the outside. He’s got a knack for finding the open spots and he slips by the ‘D’ without letting them lean on him, because if they did he might be in trouble...
...matter the direction Ec 10 takes, Harvard will continue to be a liberal institution. Nearly all departments lean to the left, and it is healthy to have at least the economics department trying to balance the academic environment. The Faculty features a majority of liberal professors, resulting in liberal teaching. This has even extended into the realm of introductory economics at Harvard. In the fall of 2003, a supposed leftist version of Ec 10, Social Analysis 72, was introduced into the course catalog. The historically sound institution of Ec 10 must not succumb to a similar fate. As a result...
...second is the number of hectares Dharavi covers in Bombay, an area half the size of New York City's Central Park. In a different life, Shekhar Kapur spent seven years crunching numbers as a corporate planner for a multinational oil company. He surveys the tiny one-room lean-tos where teeming families live shoulder to shoulder in spaces that double as hole-in-the-wall shops, goat sheds or miniature factories producing dyes, glues and shiny tin boxes. It just doesn't seem possible. "Look at this place," he says. "Look how they adapt...