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...heard of the South Beach (Florida) diet. Now get ready for the latest plans from California's Sonoma County and New York City's Park Avenue. Based on the particular tastes of each locale, these new regimens aim to make dieting more palatable by mixing snob appeal with an occasional glass of Pinot. Here's a look at the "destination diets" and a few other weight-loss books worth sampling...
Sophomore Lindsey Scherf continues to prove that she is one of the best young female distance runners in the country. On Saturday, the Harvard track and field star finished 54th at the USATF Cross Country Championships at Van Cortlandt Park just outside New York City. Her time of 30:23 for the 8-kilometer race put her just under four minutes behind the winner. Blake Russell, a 30-year old professional runner, won the championship race in 26:47. Only three runners associated with colleges finished higher than Scherf, with Chelsea McKell of BYU leading that pack with...
...good astrology coincide so rarely, millions of weddings are held on a few select nights during the cool winter season. In Delhi, that means up to 15,000 weddings a night, causing dusk-to-dawn gridlock for 14 million residents, as hundreds of thousands of guests cross town, park on the sidewalks and later weave unsteadily back home. To rein in the bacchanalia, local police have begun raiding unlicensed wedding parties and impounding gifts as evidence. Ahead of the estimated 30,000 weddings scheduled in the city in the first two weeks of this month, the Delhi high court banned...
...Chen, a third-year law student with PHRF, wrote in an e-mail. “In the evenings we donned rubber chemical boots and schlepped across ditches, past burning trash cans, through ankle-deep mud to interview workers camping out in a makeshift tent city in City Park...
...video for Peter Gabriel’s “Sledgehammer,” represents yet another good directorial gamble by the boys of Death Cab for Cutie. Well-known for selecting unheard-of directors, Ben Gibbard and company have struck gold with Norton, who manages to channel Nick Park (“Wallace & Gromit”) and Gustav Klimt at once. The result is both joyous and fragile, a montage of imagery and styles that suggest that everyone had some fun making the video. Striking me rather like what Paul Klee might have created, had he been commissioned...