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...headed for port through the midwinter dusk, there was little about the M.V. Mecca that stood out from the other boats plying the waters off southern Bangladesh. Portworkers and fishermen noted the same squat deckhouse and plump hold that for centuries have sheltered fishermen from the cyclones of the Bay of Bengal. The Mecca had the usual rusted rigging and smoke-blackened stern. And the crew too was like most others working off Chittagong: pure Rohingyas?stocky Muslim refugees from western Burma. Only the thick salt marks high on the Mecca's bow hinted that it was ending a voyage...
Rose, who had gained 100 pounds on his squat max during the offseason, was feeling a little ambitious in the weightroom. So he stacked 525 lbs onto the rack...
Your favorite place to study: I like to study on the can. I know this might sound a little strange, but there’s no better thinking position than the crap-squat...
Sheryl Crow's Soak Up the Sun wants very badly to be your classic rock song of the summer. The title is begging for it, but the lyrics--"I don't have digital/ I don't have diddley squat"--are as empty as a high school yearbook quote, and the chorus sounds like an orange-juice jingle. But who doesn't go around singing the occasional orange-juice jingle...
...moving parts in the body, few take as much abuse as the knee. With the momentum of each step, your knee joint absorbs three times your body weight. Straighten up from a deep squat, and the pressure on the joint can reach nine times your weight. Throw in a few falls or sharp blows, and that knee of yours will eventually wear out--and, in due time, develop painful osteoarthritis. That's why last week's news about a popular form of surgery to relieve pain from arthritis of the knee was so devastating...