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Although some previous research had hinted at similar benefits of weight training, the overall lack of rigorous evidence to support it led doctors to take a conservative approach in recommending excess activity. "Because we didn't have strong data one way or another, there was this dictum that translated to, Don't lift anything, or only minimally use your arm," explains Dr. Brian Lawenda, a breast-cancer-radiation specialist at Naval Medical Center San Diego, who was not involved in the new study...
...polling and discussions with voters suggest that Specter is on the trickiest ground of his career. "There's sort of a nagging concern voters have," Madonna says. "They're concerned about his past - voting with Bush and Reagan for Bush and Reagan tax cuts, for the war in Iraq, support for the Patriot Act." There's also an undercurrent of worry about Specter's age and health, Madonna says, although voters tend to say so only in whispers. Specter is 79 and has suffered two bouts of Hodgkin's lymphoma, a cancer of the blood...
...with a sweet-faced earnestness that is unusual in politics; after he was elected to the state legislature from West Miami at age 29, a state official, mistaking Rubio for an intern, sent him to make copies. But he's also tenacious and ambitious, and with Bush's support, he rose to the speaker's chair in 2007; the ceremony was broadcast live in Cuba on Radio Marti. (Read TIME's cover story on Republicans in distress...
...Soon, people from all over France were sending Picat letters of support, some accompanied by checks and cash. At first she sent it all back. "I wasn't doing any of this for money," she later told the press. "But when people insisted, I decided I'd put it in a bank account the children could use later...
...Then she did one better. Encouraged by the support of strangers from all over France, Picat decided to write a book. The Courage of a Mother explains why she felt the need to seek the public attention she would never be comfortable with. Published in March, it quickly became a best seller with more than 65,000 copies sold. Picat has put the money from the book away for her kids; she did the same when the film rights were sold. (See the top 10 nonfiction books...