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...guide to getting in shape garnered personal testimonials from active exercisers, compliments from fitness trainers and appreciation from those who are happily full-bodied and still in top form...
...guide to everything you need to know about getting in shape garnered personal testimonials from active exercisers, compliments from fitness trainers and appreciation from those who are happily full-bodied and still in top form. And some readers pointed out the need for personal motivation Bravo for showing that fitness isn't only for the thin, the strong or even just for young people [Aug. 8]. As an exercise physiologist, I have spent my career trying to change how people look at exercise. We all need to get back to making fitness activities feel as they did when we were...
...think they too need a good midlife crisis, only now it isn't the subject of jokes. It is "a major turning point in their lives." Men in a midlife crisis are usually pictured as balding and paunchy. In contrast, the women you featured are all attractive and in shape. They seem empowered by their crises. The disparity of all that is enough to make me question my male existence. Perhaps I'll buy a boat and go looking for the real me. It seems to be the thing to do. David White Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, U.S. The onset of middle...
...believe that natural disasters signal the fall of empires, a shift in the "Mandate of Heaven." The 1976 Tangshan earthquake that killed more than 200,000 people, for example, was said to portend the end of Mao's reign. This may be akin to seeing a fetus in the shape of a hurricane, but the Chinese do have a point: we have had two catastrophes in the past four years-9/11 and Katrina-and taken together, they send a signal that America's remarkable late-20th century run may not be perpetual. Modifications in the way we live...
...provides insights as readily into the problems of sheet-metal engineering as it does into those of robotics and molecular biology. He made his mark while still a teen by solving two major conundrums: the "fold and cut" and "carpenter's rule" problems. The former asks what types of shapes you can make by folding a sheet of paper and cutting it just once. The answer, Demaine helped prove, is any shape you like. The latter, a long-standing and deceptively complex problem, asks whether every shape formed by folding lines linked by hinges, as in a carpenter's rule...