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...similar to the way you need both hands to lift a weight that you could lift with one hand when you were younger," Cabeza says. "In the brain, there's a nice, natural distribution of resources. You get more neural tissue to support the task...
Where the short, thickset Abramoff did make his mark was on the football field and in the weight room. As a Beverly Hills High School senior, the Los Angeles Times reported last week, Abramoff became the first member of the school's 2700 Club, for lifting a combined total of 2,700 lbs. in the power squat, dead lift, bench press and clean and jerk. He was one of the North Side kids, from the more privileged side of the Santa Monica Boulevard line that separated the superrich from the merely wealthy. Abramoff's father Frank had transplanted the family...
Soap lovers, look out: Harvard’s first and only student-made soap opera, “Ivory Tower,” has undergone a major face-lift in preparation for its third season, which is set to debut at www.ivorytowersoap.com this Saturday. Last season’s cast is, for the most part, gone. “The premise is that every season, there will be a new cast of characters,” says the show’s Chair of Marketing and Public Relations, Stevie N. Degroff ’06. She says fans should only...
...plopped himself down--not on the couch or near it but on top of it, like a household pet. Then he began talking about the one interest that Clooney, Wolfowitz and almost everyone else who had come to Scotland that day had in common: persuading developed nations to help lift 1 billion people out of extreme poverty. Bono's precise words on the subject are lost to history. "I couldn't stop looking at him," says Clooney. "He's so affectless. You felt like you're in the living room with your buddy who just happens to be a global...
...Chin ’08, Larissa D. Koch ’08, and Jordan C. Walker ’07 danced with a quiet grace and wonderfully controlled movements, reminiscent of woodland sprites. In particular, Altenburg, with her impressive penché (balancing on one leg with the other lifted behind her in a perfect 180° angle) and Chin, with her beautifully fluid movements, notably stood out.In a jarring contrast to the simple black costumes of the opening number, the subsequent large group dance, Sandra Goodnough’s “Tabibtotachi” (also known...