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...course, even with such straightforward guidelines, portion control is still critical. To get maximum benefit from any dietary regimen, you need to limit what you take in and make sure you don't consume more than your body can burn. Indeed, it's so hard to lose weight and keep it off that the A.H.A., also for the first time, has made obesity prevention one of its top priorities. Fortunately, there's an easy way to keep your caloric intake balanced with your metabolic output: just step on the bathroom scale and see if you're gaining weight. Provided...
...losing a basketball game. His mother tells him that putting salt in his shoes will help. Though he doesn't notice any improved verticality, he keeps playing. It will come as no surprise that Michael realizes that hard work and dedication are what really count, but the book's straightforward style is still winning. (Note: Before you try the salt trick at home, remember that genes also help...
...South Africa's Desmond Tutu are so celebrated in the U.S. that it can be easy to forget how dangerous and lonely their work can be. Kennedy Cuomo's interviews with 50 activists, including seven Nobel laureates, tell the stories of these courageous souls in their own sometimes straightforward words. East Timor's Jose Ramos-Horta remembers when the U.S. was a foe: "My own sister Maria was killed by a plane delivered to Indonesia two weeks before by the Carter Administration." Black-and-white portraits by the Pulitzer-prizewinning photographer Eddie Adams add power to the text. An exhibit...
...second, and much less common, reason that a politician would speak about religion on the campaign trail. When people run for as high an office as the presidency (or the vice-presidency), it is their duty to present themselves to the American people in an honest and straightforward manner. People expect them to speak forthrightly about their vision for America, the policies they hope to implement, their personality, their ideals and their beliefs...
...Haworth discovered a purpose. "It took me a while, but I finally found something that someone my size can be very good at," says Haworth. "It's an individual and straightforward sport: either you can lift the weight or you can't." Haworth uses her speed (she can run the 40-yd. dash in an NFL-like 5 sec.) and her power (she can jump an NBA-like 34 in.) to routinely, and repeatedly, lift a groaning bar with a couple hundred pounds. Buff football players pass by, not even bothering to hide their admiration. In competition she has lifted...