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...can’t do more than eight push-ups in a row.…Perform full choreographed routines to “Sexy Back”:Whether we were once the young girl who dreamt about growing up to be a ballerina before realizing she would prefer to keep her toes intact, or the nerdy teenage boy who grinded up to his high school crush only to be turned away, we have all made failed efforts at attractively moving our bodies to music.Perhaps this single fact explains the success of Fox?...
...transition to on-campus dorms. “The students living in the hotels really built a tight-knit community, and it saddens me that most of them are split up in January and forced to adjust to new roommates.” Indeed, Cattall said that he would prefer staying in the Inn to moving into a BU dorm. “I am going to miss having a huge TV in the middle of my dorm and someone to clean up twice a week,” he says. Wouldn?...
That more relaxed approach to travel grew out of Italy's slow food movement, which emphasizes home-cooked, authentic cuisine to counter the proliferation of fast-food restaurants. Slow travelers, says Kenny, prefer a "concentric circle" approach to tourism: go out the front door and explore the neighborhood and nearby towns, get to know the locals instead of slavishly following guidebook itineraries. Kenny and her husband Steve Cohen, 59, were in a Munich art gallery filled with Rubenses when it struck her that seeing all the standard tourist highlights was exhausting and there must be a better...
...Most parents would probably prefer if the laundry (collecting on the floor for weeks or more) gets appropriately washed/dried before the trip home,” Pollack wrote. “I’ve fielded many questions from distraught parents (some of Harvard students) who seem to have acquired bed bugs in this manner...
...center in the home," says Dr. George Taler, co-director of the Washington Hospital Center Medical House Call Program in Washington. "Even intravenous therapies, medications and oxygen are readily available at the time of the visit if the physician wishes to offer advanced care for those patients who would prefer to avoid the emergency room or, for that matter, the hospital. It may seem counterintuitive, but many physicians who make house calls an important part of their practice are far more technologically equipped than most of their colleagues who confine their practice to the office. It makes the office seem...