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...body and increases the efficiency of the heart and lungs. The case for exercise was made persuasively by a 20-year study of 17,000 Harvard alumni, age 35 to 74, by Stanford Epidemiologist Ralph Paffenbarger. He found that men who made a lifetime habit of regular exercise (say, strenuous swimming or jogging three times a week) had about half as many heart attacks as those who were sedentary. Even smokers, overweight men and those with high blood pressure or family histories of heart disease benefited from exercise. Despite the Harvard study, however, the value of exercise in preventing coronary...
Bookstein's criticisms of the pianist's life here are minimal, partially because he seems to have both the guile and the dedication to surmount all obstacles. He plans to give at least six recitals next year, and his strenuous practicing schedule shows no sign of letting up. But the bulk of his musical education, like that of other serious performers at Harvard, will take place outside the classroom. "I'm not here to learn piano performance," he says. "Harvard does not offer piano performance...
...those hitters plus two less strenuous games against lackluster Penn on Saturday, that induced Crimson coach Alex Nahigian to use his best hurler, Bill Larson, this afternoon. Larson, 3-1, leads the club in just about every pitching category, and although his strikeouts (13) are nothing like Lundgren's, he doesn't have a three-week slump to worry about, either...
...perfectly responsive to the purpose: a blind red rage flashes in the brain and fires a signal through the nerves to the trigger finger - BLAM! Guns do not require much work. You do not have to get your hands bloody, as you would with a knife, or make the strenuous and intimately dangerous effort required to kill with bare hands. The space between gun and victim somehow purifies the relationship - at least for the person at the trigger - and makes it so much easier to perform the deed. The bullet goes invisibly across space to flesh. An essential disconnection, almost...
With 20 black children missing or murdered since July 1979, Atlanta is increasingly a city of fear (see BEHAVIOR). There are indications, however, that a strenuous police investigation into the killings is beginning to show at least some progress. TIME learned last week that law-enforcement officials think they know who killed "two or three" of the children. These murders, though, are apparently isolated crimes, allegedly committed by black individuals against children they knew. Officials still believe that there is a "pattern" murderer who is responsible for most of the killings. Some authorities also believe there...