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...seen them: perfectly toned celebrities on late-night television telling us that we too can develop rock-hard abdominal muscles. It's easy! Just slap down $149.99 for the Torso Track or $149.75 for the Ab-Doer and watch those unwanted inches melt from your waist. Americans shelled out tens of millions of dollars last year on various devices to firm up their flabby midriffs...
...child policy has never been as rigorous as some outside China have thought. Ethnic minorities like Tibetans, for example, have never had any limits imposed on family. But the new law may combat at least one aspect of the old policy--the corruption that accompanies it. In villages, officials slap fines on citizens with extra children and share profits with doctors who push patients to get sterilized. By bringing decisions closer to the grass-roots, Beijing hopes to eliminate graft...
...sensible practice of yoga does more than slap a Happy Face on your cerebrum. It can also massage the lymph system, says Dr. Mehmet Oz, a cardiac surgeon at New York Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan. Lymph is the body's dirty dishwater; a network of lymphatic vessels and storage sacs crisscross the entire body, in parallel with the blood supply, carrying a fluid composed of infection-fighting white blood cells and the waste products of cellular activity. Exercise in general activates the flow of lymph through the body, speeding up the filtering process; but yoga in particular promotes the draining...
...discussions between top Carolina administrators and the majority leader of the North Carolina Senate, who is also a prominent member of Carolina’s alumni association. Through the commendable work of the state legislators representing Chapel Hill, the provision was later removed—but it was a slap in the face to the town and its residents to suggest that they could not have any input in how our town is developed...
Whether you're headed for the beach or the lake, or whether you just plan to hang out in the backyard this summer, you probably already know how to protect your skin against the sun's harmful rays. Just slip on a shirt, slap on a hat and slop on plenty of sunscreen, preferably with an SPF rating of at least 30. But are you doing everything you can to safeguard your eyes? Don't be so sure the answer is yes, even if you sport the latest in designer sunglasses...