Word: tans
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...contrast, radiates the new. He doesn't just talk about change; he looks like change. His person and his platform are virtually indistinguishable. Obama, like Tiger Woods and Angelina Jolie, has one of those faces that seem beamed from a postracial future, when everyone will have a permanent, noncarcinogenic tan. He has small kids and a low BMI. His voice rumbles with authority, but his ears stick out like Opie Taylor's. His campaign is crawling with cool young people, and the candidate fits right in. We've yet to see Obama flustered or harried; instead, he gives...
...Since morning there's been no business," complains Aden, who is covered in sand as he brushes the tan hairs of his camel. Behind him stretches a nearly empty beach bordered by a sparkling aqua-blue ocean. Aden previously earned around $60 a day; he says that number is now down to nearly zero...
Thick, 15-foot high blast walls are everywhere. Some form extended contiguous barriers, like paranoid rat mazes of concrete-and-sky tunnels. Some connect to nothingness, sitting at odd angles, left littering the highways, neighborhood streets and alleyways, forgotten pieces of drab, tan cityscape. Except for the helicopters thumping just above the low skyline, views in Baghdad are therefore always partly obscured...
...finding is in keeping with current research about the impacts of healthy lifestyle habits on the risk for developing cognitive impairment conditions later in life. "I'm not surprised by this study," says Dr. Zaldy Tan, director of the Memory Clinic at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. "I think more and more researchers like myself are realizing that prevention is the most effective way of curbing the incidence of Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia...
...general well-being), researchers note that regular exercise boosts health in many other important ways, including weight control and prevention of coronary disease. "I think it's premature to specifically prescribe exercise to prevent dementia, but it's not premature to prescribe exercise to prevent heart disease," says Tan. "A lot of the things that have been proven to be good for the heart, now there's accumulating evidence that these work for the brain...