Word: regimens
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...colds; controlled experiments, however, have failed "to provide proof of the claim. Some folk remedies out of folklore (rub socks with onions, coat body with Vaseline) are hard to consider with a straight face, and a great many others irresistibly bring to mind Robert Benchley's personal anticold regimen: "Don't breathe through your nose or mouth...
...Learning to tap dance at 35 is like having a truck run over you every day. It's real punishment," says Steve Martin of the nine-month regimen of instruction he endured for the film Pennies from Heaven. The musical drama, scheduled for Christmas release, is based on a 1978 BBC series and not the breezy 1936 Bing Crosby picture. Steve plays a hapless sheet-music vendor who wants to live in a world "where the songs come true." Co-star Bernadette Peters, 31, Steve's oft reported main squeeze offstage, provides the love interest. With Depression...
Beyond the excitement of rowing in front of the hometown crowd, racing in the Head helps keep rowers--whose season is still six months away--interested in their daily training regimen, Bruce Beall, the coach of the Harvard lightweights, said while he wished the Head were later in the fall, he didn't think his crews would be training any differently if there were no Head. "It gives a goal, an impetus for training," he added...
...Journal also contained an encouraging report about the effectiveness of chemotherapy after mastectomies. A study of 1,863 women whose cancer had spread beyond the breast revealed that recurrence rates dropped when a chemical called tamoxifen supplemented an established two-drug regimen known as PF (L-phenylalanine mustard and 5-fluorouracil). The effects were most striking in postmenopausal women, a group that in the past did not seem to benefit from chemotherapy. Says the study chairman, Dr. Bernard Fisher of the University of Pittsburgh: "In women over 50 years old with multiple lymph node involvement, 45% will have a reoccurrence...
Gaines admits that he doesn't enjoy the rigorous training necessary for world-class competition--swimming five hours a day, 20 miles a week. "If an average bystander compared our regimen to any other sport he'd say swimming was the hardest to train...