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...other military men at the well-fortified Bab el- Azizia barracks. He keeps a tent outside, and it is underneath its cloth top that he appears to feel truly at home. He has a piece of bread and a glass of camel's milk for breakfast, a regimen he has kept since he was a boy. He says he likes Western classical music, especially Beethoven, and that his favorite book is Uncle Tom's Cabin. With a kind of adolescent romanticism, he thinks of himself as a Bedouin Byron. "I am a poet," he told a German interviewer. "From time...
...Right Stuff. Tom Wolfe named the phenomenon when describing how the nation's best test pilots follow a curious training regimen. Rather than eat right and sleep properly, the fighter jocks stay up all night drinking and rat-racing down desert highways in their sportscars...
...real work is promotion, which you should do for as many hours a day as your body can stand. But what if, after all that effort, the book is still headed for terminal inactivity on the remainder shelf? Hear now the tale of Callan Pinckney, whose deep-muscle-exercise regimen hit best-seller lists an unheard- of 14 months after it was published...
Some home-gym owners hire consultants, at $20 an hour and up, to coach them on new equipment, devise an exercise regimen or provide encouragement. No one knows how many of those who are initially eager eventually throw in the towel. According to one survey this year, only 20% of buyers of home devices remain steady users. "The biggest problem with doing this stuff is boredom," says Attorney Robert Gelfman, 54, who pedals a bike in his Scarsdale, N.Y., home three or four times a week. His solution: placing a book on an adjacent music stand. Says Gelfman...
...cruelty, but nothing hurts my feelings because I feel comfortable. Except in Cleveland, where I catch cold. Ah-ha-ha. Because God made me this way, I'm not mad. I have fun all the time. Oh man, I just want to be a good basketball player." Bol's regimen for gaining weight is as oppressive as Perry's diet, though they are closing on each other cautiously. Perry says, "I don't want to be too thin." Bol says, "I don't want to be too fat." Their grace per pound is the amazement. In lateral-movement drills, Perry...