Word: mins
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...very excited about the holiday since it is my first time to spend July 4th in America," said summer school student Sung Min You, who is from South Korea...
...enrolled without my knowledge. Last month researchers reported that children routinely overestimate how much they exercise. Describing their activities the previous day, 45 participants ages 11 to 13 reported an hour of vigorous exercise (like running). But motion recorders strapped to their hips revealed the truth: 2 min. The rest of the day--an average of 10 hr.--was sedentary: TV, video games, sleeping...
...finally, my favorite--because not only does it force them to exercise more but it also allows me to exercise less. "Chores," he said, "are great." It turns out that a 90-lb. person who washes dishes for 5 min. burns 7 calories (compared to a measly 3 while watching TV). This same person will burn 11 vacuuming. Or 17 weeding. It's a beautiful world when your children complain about carrying groceries up the stairs (27 calories) and you can reply in that calm mom voice that drives them crazy, "It's for your own good...
...hand. Chicken Run is one of the few features made in the sublimely masochistic form of animation known as stop motion, in which plasticine puppets on miniature film sets must be adjusted 24 times for every second of film. A live-action feature has perhaps 500 shots; this 82-min. movie has 118,080. "The detail is astonishing," says Lord, still in awe of his colleagues' industry 28 years after co-founding the studio. "There must be more man-hours per film frame here than in anything else known to man." The art of the Aardmen and -women...
...alone. A third of the people questioned in a recent study by N.F.O. Interactive admitted to spending at least 25 min. during the workday using the Net for personal pursuits. But after a while it gets dull checking the five-day forecast on weather.com or hoping some news will break on CNN.com to liven up your mundane Monday. So if you need a quick fix that won't get you fired because it takes all day, here are a few sure bets...