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...adds up to a very grueling 40 minutes. Clients cycle through six different weight machines, doing a set of four to six repetitions per exercise. but each rep takes up to 20 seconds, with no rest, so muscles quickly start to quake, and stomachs get queasy. trainers encourage short, sharp breaths in place of squirming and grimacing. "It sounds like a lamaze class with cursing," says lou abato, a new york city trainer. the technique was invented in 1982 by trainer ken hutchins, who believes that other methods can cause injury and provide lesser results. Though Superslow has many skeptics...
...mail and instant messaging functions. A potential dark horse in the mobile race is Oslo-based Trolltech. Trolltech's technology is based on Linux, a system used mainly on Web servers. Because Linux technology is in the public domain, it can be easily customized for any device. Sharp is using Trolltech's mobile version of Linux in its Zaurus SL-5500 personal digital assistant. As the mobile browser wars rage on, billions of euros are at stake, and anxious mobile-phone operators are coveting data services, a crucial new source of revenue as voice revenues decline. "These are steps...
...liabilities on the basis of the guaranteed 4.5% rate. With interest rates falling through much of the 1990s, the firm had little choice but to chase higher returns on the stock market. Not all European nations mandated minimum rates, but all insurers had to adapt to the sharp, sustained drop in interest rates during the 1990s. At the same time, to entice new customers, they had to offer returns that would compete with giddy stock markets. By any standard, the results have been calamitous. European insurance stocks have fallen by 58% this year - even worse than the 50% drop...
...year-old Moose, who has been police chief in this Maryland suburb for three years, is known for his sharp eyes and even sharper tongue - and the latter was in plain view Wednesday when Moose blasted the news media for revealing "too much" information about the search for the killer, most notably details concerning a tarot card located near the middle school where a 13-year-old boy was shot. 'I have not received any message that the citizens?want Channel 9 or The Washington Post or any other media outlet to solve this case,'' Moose said. ''If they...
...school counselors and officials attribute the sharp increase in test-takers primarily to the flagging economy. The previous record for largest LSAT test was held by the October 1991 administration, when the economy last suffered from a recession...