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...measure of creative people's achievement when their success allows them to be known by one name (Picasso, Yanni). But a musician from Minneapolis, Minn., did those titans one better, insisting that he be referred to only as an unpronounceable hieroglyphic. Since 1993, the man born PRINCE Rogers Nelson has refused to use his given name to protest the terms of his recording contract. Last week, however, the singer who has simply been referred to as The Artist announced that his contract has expired and his name has been emancipated. "I will now go back to using my name instead...
...hostages' release - although the U.S. pulled back Tuesday from a plan to send the Reverend Jesse Jackson on a shuttle diplomacy mission to the region after the civil rights campaigner angered leaders in West Africa in reported comments that appeared to equate Sierra Leone?s murderous rebels with Nelson Mandela?s African National Congress. But even without Jesse Jackson, negotiations inevitably involve give and take, and the rebels' call for a halt to any U.N. or government counteroffensive reflects their primary concern to maintain control of Sierra Leone's diamond fields to the south and east. Indeed...
...Miriam Nelson and Tufts University colleagues proved that lifting weights doesn't just build muscles. It also strengthens brittle bones and reduces osteoporosis risk in older women. Ever since, she's been crusading to reacquaint women with their biceps, triceps and hamstrings. "We value our skin, breasts and hair," Nelson says. "But we don't value our muscles as much as we should...
Though it's never too late to start, Nelson urges women to begin pumping iron at least by their 30s and 40s, because that's when bones start to thin. Lifting weights for 30 min. two to three times a week can slow or even reverse that bone loss. Don't be worried about bulging muscles; women produce too little testosterone to really bulk...
...Nelson, 40, who just began rock climbing with her husband and three children, believes doctors don't talk enough about what women with osteoporosis can do to help themselves. But she's too good a scientist to claim that weight training is a cure-all. Her latest book, Strong Women, Strong Bones (Putnam), the third of a series, also includes up-to-date nutritional and drug therapies for osteoporosis. "There's no magic bullet," Nelson says. "But strength training can mean the difference between having a vibrant old age and a frail...