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Weight-bearing exercises also help. The teens and twenties are good times for men and women to start strength training. Working out with weights a few times a week builds bones and muscle mass, which you'll thank yourself...
INDIA'S SUCCESS IN information technology derives from calculated public policy, but its predominance in jewelry is an anthropologist's affair: 5,000 years of sea and caravan trading with Arabia, Greece and Rome. "Plenty of rubies, plenty of emeralds! You should thank God for having brought you to so rich a country!" Vasco da Gama was told when he sailed into Calcutta in 1497. Most Indian mines were exhausted by the late 19th century, but the gems kept coming. And whether they were commoners buying "1-g bangles" or royals commissioning turban ornaments, Indians were always mad for jewelry...
...crazy about the Crash win. During the acceptance speech, musical director Bill Conti seemed to be indicating the vexation of a minority in the room when he brought up the orchestra volume before Haggis could say his piece. (This year, the orchestra played softly through each of the spoken thank-you speeches, making the winners? comments sound like song cues in an old musical.) But Haggis had been on stage earlier, as a Screenplay winner. Besides, his victory was unique, at least to lovers of Oscar trivia. He became the first person to have written two consecutive Best Pictures (after...
...fake-sulked when he accepted his trophy, ?so I?m not winning Director.? But he did serve, with handsome grace, as Hollywood?s poster boy for glamour, taking a few genial shots from Stewart (?I kid because I envy?) and hearing a female winner of the Short Subject Oscar ?thank the Academy for seating me next to George Clooney at the nominees? luncheon.? (The star, who knew a camera was trained on him throughout the ceremony, flashed a look of mild chagrin...
...This is a moment I’ve wanted for a long time, and I couldn’t have lost to a greater opponent,” she said. Newman, staying true to the jovial mood of the night, was a gracious winner, remembering to thank those that made his triumph possible. “Dara and Sophia are sweet for giving me $20 in Finale food, and all I had to do was play games...