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...Lean R. Lussier ’07 said she was looking forward to catching a glimpse of Zeta-Jones during the star’s visit to Cambridge, since The Mask of Zorro is her favorite movie...
Folks who are lean are more likely to fidget, stand up or pace about than their moderately obese counterparts, according to a study of 20 self-identified couch potatoes conducted by researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. For 10 days scientists measured their subjects' every movement, using sensors embedded in specially designed underwear. The 10 lean participants were more active even after they were required to gain weight...
...Hong Kong Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa, last week's annual Policy Address should have been an opportunity to brag. The economy has revived after seven lean years and the scary days of SARS. Millions of mainland tourists are streaming across the border. And prices for property, the economy's lifeblood, have zoomed up by more than 30% in the last year. Yet last week, Tung stood at the rostrum of the Legislative Council looking like he'd rather be in the dentist's chair. "We fell short of thinking what people think and addressing people's pressing needs...
...results, published last month in the New England Journal of Medicine, indicate that while active women were less likely to die than inactive ones, active, obese women still had a significantly higher risk of death than their lean counterparts. Hu defined active obese women as those who spent 3.5 or more hours exercising per week with a body-mass index—weight in kilograms over the square of the person’s height in meters—of 30 or higher...
...also made people aware, as never before, of how quickly architects are moving the skyscraper into uncharted territory. United Architects entered a widely seen proposal in the competition, an ensemble of five slightly inebriate towers. Some of them rise on the diagonal, and all of them eventually lean into one another and touch at their 60th floors. At that juncture they produce their most spectacular feature, a five-story corridor spanning the length of all five towers horizontally, making a fully enclosed loggia hundreds of feet long--a city street in midair...