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...think you've exercised. (That always looks pretentious anyway.) The American College of Sports Medicine's recommendation for the minimum target heart rate during exercise has been dropping for nearly 20 years. In 1975 the college said the pulse rate during exercise should be 80% of the heart's maximum capacity; in 1980 that goal fell to 70%, then 60% in 1986. Last year it was a modest 50%. Says Linda Webb, a Weight Watchers spokeswoman: "The problem in the 1980s was that exercise was ! seen as a chore, beyond the norm. Now we recognize that all we have...
...that have been lashing the upper Midwest and swelling the rivers for the past three months, in amounts often difficult to believe (an inch in only six minutes last week at Papillion, Nebraska). Otherwise the crest could be even higher than predicted; continued rain caused forecasts of the expected maximum height at St. Louis to be raised a full foot within two days late last week. On Saturday, thunderstorms dropped an additional 5 in. of rain on central Iowa. A dangerous second crest could chase the big one down the Mississippi, and secondary rivers could burst their banks in areas...
...identified as being a cyanide spill and they went into maximum response," Littleboy said. "They thought it might be cyanide...
...keep up momentum. Earlier this month health-care adviser Ira Magaziner gave an update to hundreds of members of the working groups that had studied what to propose. Onstage alone for 10 hours in the Old Executive Office Building, Magaziner stressed again that the Administration intends to give states maximum flexibility in delivering a basic benefits package. To the many in his audience who favor a "single-payer" system (government acts as sole insurer and pays all bills), Magaziner advised, "If you think single payer is best, then argue for that in your state...
...first member to quit the treaty. But most observers are pessimistic that Kim will really cave in to political or economic pressure. "We're not dealing with rational people but with an unreconstructedly Stalinist regime," says a top British diplomat. "They don't believe in compromise but in maximum advantage...