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...PAIN, BUT STILL A GAIN Two studies published last week show that easy everyday activities like brisk walking, housework and gardening can improve cholesterol and blood-pressure levels about as effectively as more strenuous exercises like running and aerobics. Body fat drops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Health: Feb. 8, 1999 | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

...doubtless imagine just how strenuous an effort--much of it shot in raked angles and presented in quick cuts by director Tony Scott--is required of Dean to get his life back and his tormentors chastened. You can probably imagine, as well, the gleam, sheen and extensiveness of the high-tech machinery that a well-endowed bureaucracy can deploy to torment a citizen on which its baleful eye has fallen. You may even be able to predict the chipper amorality of the techies manning the keyboards and terminals. What do they care about ends when the means...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Will Power Wins Again | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

...many injured athletes, initial pain anddisappointment usually gives way to optimism andresolve. The road to recovery for Milbert will belong and strenuous, but its bumps are at leastfamiliar. She is already anticipating long hoursin the training room, but at the end of it allpictures herself lacing up her skates sometimeearly next year...

Author: By Chris Pappas, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: PLAYING THE SIDELINES | 11/13/1998 | See Source »

...Full, and is a Wolfe friend and fan. "Many years ago, he used to get knocked for making stuff up," Wenner says. "But in my experience with him, which is 25 years, he's never made anything up, any detail of fact." Wenner believes Wolfe's strenuous pursuit of precise details, both in his journalism and fiction, has produced a major body of work. "If you read it all together as one piece, you would understand the amazing modern crazy quilt and fabric of contemporary America better than [through] any other thing I can imagine seeing or reading or looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tom Wolfe: A Man In Full | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

Purchase is the local state school, and it is shall we say, not so intellectually strenuous. Beyond that, our heroine was largely clueless, flying blind. She assumed she was safe though, that all should now return to equilibrium. Wrong...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POSTCARD FROM NEW ROCHELLE | 8/14/1998 | See Source »

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