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When Jayich walks into The Crimson, heads turn. The only competitor to keg his beer and attach a CO2 pump, Jayich has five full gallons of his special porter ready for judging...
...intense" is better. Men who ran an hour or more weekly were 42% less likely to develop heart disease--more than twice the benefit of walking 30 min. a day. Men who lifted weights cut their cardiac risk 23%. It may be best to pick up the pace and pump iron, but doing anything is always better than doing nothing. --By David Bjerklie...
Might the networks be tempted to pump up their revenues by adding more commercial time to their shows while the ad market is hot? NBC--whose $2.7 billion in ad revenue for last spring's up-front period dwarfed second place CBS's $1.8 million--raised some eyebrows early in October when it announced that it was adding two minutes to each episode of TV's top-rated sitcom Friends. But Jeffrey Zucker, president of NBC Entertainment, a division of General Electric, says the added minutes represent program time, not commercials. The aim is to make Friends run two minutes...
...description of the assassin. President Vladimir Putin ordered his Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov and Interior Minister Boris Gryzlov to investigate. Meanwhile, a car bomb exploded on Saturday outside a crowded McDonald's in Moscow, injuring seven people. MIDDLE EAST Hot Water Israel protested when Lebanon inaugurated a project to pump water from a river near their joint border. The Lebanese project will draw water from a tributary of the Hasbani River, which feeds the Sea of Galilee, Israel's largest freshwater reservoir. KENYA Breaking Up President Daniel Arap Moi's KANU party split over his choice of successor. The party...
...meters deep to reach the water table. The combined effect of drought, reduced water from the hills and the cannabis cultivators' new boreholes is catastrophic, says Bertrand Brequeville of French aid group Action Contre la Faim. "It's only the rich drug producers who can afford the pumps to irrigate the land. They pump all day, and all the wells in the villages around them...