Word: skips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Stretching--uggh! It's the part of our exercise routine that most of us are tempted to skip. Yet, the more exercise physiologists learn about stretching--which causes the ligaments, tendons and muscles to lengthen--the more benefits they find. It helps maintain flexibility and range of motion, eases muscle soreness and improves recovery time. In addition, new research suggests that stretching combined with weight training can actually make you stronger faster than weight training alone...
...professors who signed the letter are W.E.B. DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint, Cowles Professor of Sociology Orlando Patterson and Geyser University Professor William Julius Wilson...
Reading about the failure of mandatory-sentencing laws made my heart skip a beat. I realized that the sad situation described so vividly would soon affect my family. My son Eric, who turned 20 just a few weeks ago, is looking at a sentence of six to nine years in prison. Eric, like many other young people, fell prey to adult drug runners, who continue to walk freely the streets of America's small towns. Eric had no criminal record. This is a terrible injustice. EDNA BUNTAIN Paris...
Playing by Heart has plenty of potential and merit as long as you skip the movie and just watch the trailer. The cast is very talented, sporting names such as Sean Connery, Gena Rowlands, Jon Stewart, Gillian Anderson, Dennis Quaid, Anthony Edwards, Angelina Jolie and Ryan Phillipe. Producers must have expected that an ensemble of such famous actors would draw the crowds, although if often seems quite ridiculous that some of these beautiful people have not found dates in years. Also, the trailer displays every laugh-out-loud moment found in this romantic comedy in less than five minutes...
...have become sophisticated in protecting the experimental subjects in these studies; more often the loudest criticism we hear today comes from those who say, "Ethics be damned. Skip the testing and give the drug...