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...strategy worked to perfection. La Jolla once ran up a 45 point lead in the first quarter against a hapless opposition, prompting the other team to quit after just 15 minutes...
...study found that men could add two years to their lives by increasing their walking pace from less than 10 miles a week to a brisk 15 miles-plus a week, the statement said. Men who quit smoking between the ages of 35 and 84 added between one and two years to their lives...
...were forced out by Harvard," he said. "They sent us a quit notice. Their claim was that we owed them a substantial amount of back [payments]," he said...
...against cigarettes also seems to have contributed to the bulging of America. Millions of people have given up smoking, driving annual per capita cigarette consumption by adults from its peak of 4,345 in 1963 to 2,493 last year, according to the American Health Foundation. And when people quit smoking, they usually gain weight -- 4 to 6 lbs. on average. But health officials are quick to point out that while those extra pounds may harm your health, cigarettes are even more damaging. Most doctors advise patients that a bit of additional weight is a small price...
...move that TIME correspondents say surprised everyone in its timing, CIA Director James Woolsey -- long criticized for his handling of the Aldrich Ames spy case -- resigned today. Woolsey said his "family figures prominently" in the decision to quit. President Clinton said he accepted the resignation "with regret." Woolsey had been under fire for weeks by lawmakers for not adequately punishing CIA officials for bungling the Ames case. Ames, a CIA counterintelligence officer, had been spying for Russia for eight years before being arrested last year. Woolsey reprimanded 11 senior officials but the Senate Intelligence Committee called the action "seriously inadequate...