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When women arrived at their clinic complaining of angina (heart disease--related chest pain) while vacuuming, University of Nebraska researchers decided to examine the phenomenon. In a study of 36 healthy women ages 50 to 59, the scientists found that vacuuming was indeed a taxing task, but how much it stressed the heart depended on the model. The easiest to use: self-propelled upright cleaners, best for women with heart disease...
...been told that you want to come and live in America. You're more than welcome to come and live in my house." OZZY OSBOURNE, rocker and TV phenomenon, offering Prince William a place to stay...
It’s a larger phenomenon, I guess: New York seems to instinctively look down its proverbial nose at its little brother across the river. The city is the cultural epicenter of the world, and New Jersey is…well, to many people it’s just a series of rest-stops for those traveling up or down I-95. Consequently, New York gets a lot of perks at New Jersey’s expense, especially in the world of sports...
...they survived--tarnished but still together, quasi-triumphant, even. There was a Homeric quality to all this; the Clinton saga seemed more fantastic than real, the mischievous work of some puckish minor deity. (Cyclops and the Sirens had nothing on Gingrich and Lewinsky.) Bill Clinton was, and remains, a phenomenon of divine--or demonic--exaggeration, a compendium of astonishing strengths, flaws and appetites. But we are talking about Hillary here, and she is far more difficult to explain...
...This phenomenon, referred to as "plus sizing" in boardrooms and "big balling" on the street, has pushed U.S. sales of custom wheels up to $3.2 billion last year, from $1.2 billion in 1991, and every company from Toyota to Mattel is trying to get in on the action. Two years after Mattel started licensing miniature rims for its Hot Wheels toy cars, the firm will unveil a line of wheels for real cars. Rimmakers are also expecting a boost from this summer's sequel to the 2001 surprise-hit movie The Fast and the Furious, which opens June 6. Amid...