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Doctors typically tell patients who have the chronic condition to avoid heavy lifting, since lymphedema can flare up and cause infection easily. Many women are advised to not pick up their children, to not use heavy handbags or lift more than 10-15 lb. at a time and to limit exercise to milder forms such as walking, swimming and light aerobics. (See TIME's special report on advances for breast-cancer patients...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Benefits Seen in Postcancer Weight-Lifting | 8/12/2009 | See Source »

...just waiting to move the team to Fremont. And though Fremont isn’t too far from Oakland, I’m still uncertain about uncertainty. But fidelity is something I value in a team; I like to root for a team that won’t just pick...

Author: By Dixon McPhillips | Title: A FAN FOR SALE FINALE: This Fan is Sold | 8/12/2009 | See Source »

That's why building is starting to pick up in certain pockets of the country. In central Texas, to take an example, D.R. Horton, one of the nation's largest homebuilders, is planning to build upward of 700 houses without buyers lined up. Such speculative houses largely went away during the real estate bust, but for builders trying to stay ahead of growing demand, they are starting to reappear. (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Homebuilders Are Back At It — Should We Be Worried? | 8/11/2009 | See Source »

...tourists. My boyfriend tries to reason with one, insisting that his friend, a Belgrade native, assured us that a cab would cost no more than 1,500 dinars— nothing close to the 2,500 the cabbie has quoted. The driver retorts, "Well, why doesn't your friend pick you up then...

Author: By Lena Chen | Title: 24 Hours in Belgrade | 8/11/2009 | See Source »

...year I’ve neglected to visit close high school friends who live nearby. When I exchange updates with folks abroad, no matter how long it’s been since we’ve spoken, I’m struck by how easily we can pick up where we left...

Author: By Anita J Joseph | Title: Heart and Seoul | 8/11/2009 | See Source »

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