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...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 to do is normal things like walking, but just do it a little faster. It's the difference between a craze and common sense...
...truth and injustice. Neither side really wants let-the-chips- fall-where-they-may TV. Edge, an irreverent PBS magazine show, was canceled last year after airing just eight programs, and PBS declined a $5 million grant to create unconventional 1992 election-year coverage. "Anything apart from the norm won't be allowed," says a senior public-affairs producer who recently left PBS. "They aren't really interested in innovation...
...attended concerts in 1991, and if season subscriptions are off in many places, single-ticket and short-series sales have gone up. Out of the ashes in Denver and New Orleans have risen new player-managed or partnership ensembles, the Colorado Symphony and the Louisiana Philharmonic. Younger audiences -- the norm in Europe, the exception in America -- are showing a new discrimination in what they want to hear...
...Volodya abandoned at the Moscow railway station -- together with thousands of other youngsters who have turned the terminal into a street urchin's paradise. Once victimized by the violent gangsters and pimps who control the sex trade, most children end up addicted to alcohol or drugs. Despair is the norm; suicide is common...
...Harvard in 1971, he was a hotshot fortysomething coach from the Canadian Football League with many unorthodox ideas about how football should be played. Now, as he prepares to leave, his "radical" ideas--such as single-back formations and the importance of a strong passing game--have become the norm in both the college and professional leagues. But Restic is still an oddity in college sports. In this era of "big money" college athletics, Restic has become one of the nation's leading spokespeople for the ideal of the student-athlete and the value of football as a life-shaping...