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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...touting their locations. That's because Curves customers, generally ignored by the 1990s fitness frenzy that raced to reel in the prized 18-to-34 demographic, have spread the word almost evangelically. "What Curves has done is broken through the perception that you have to be fit, coordinated and thin to go to a gym," says Bill Howland, director of research for the International Health, Racquet and Sports Association, the industry's largest trade organization. "They've carved out a niche within the population that had never been served...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Franchising: A Slim Gym's Fat Success | 5/5/2003 | See Source »

...here, in the Square, to vacate their space, we can take it over. If the transportation problem can be solved, Allston can be much more useful for undergraduates. Those of us who have worked at the Dean’s Office have a fear of spreading undergrads too thin...

Author: By J. hale Russell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The House is Full | 4/30/2003 | See Source »

Harkey’s book collection, titled “Out Of Thin Air: A Collection of Old-Time Radio Books and Memorabilia,” began when she started buying books for an essay she was writing for her high school Advanced Placement U.S. History class...

Author: By Kaija-leena Romero, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Undergrads Rewarded for Book Collections | 4/30/2003 | See Source »

Although it held out into the twenty-first century, the New England Confectionary Company (Necco) factory—since 1901 the world’s supplier of thin, powdery sugar treats known as Necco wafers—was an area fossil...

Author: By Elizabeth S. Widdicombe, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Candy Plant To Shift From Sugar to Science | 4/28/2003 | See Source »

...recurrence of similar problems, with the sequel immediately plunging the viewer into an intense, thoroughly gripping action sequence: the president is under attack by a mysterious creature that has broken into the White House. Unfortunately, the creature can dodge secret service guards’ bullets by disappearing into thin air and reappearing elsewhere moments later, an effect that is pulled off seamlessly. Director Brian Singer never forfeits his trust in the moviegoers’ attention spans, preferring the long, focused shot to the edit-crazy butchering of a Jerry Bruckheimer film...

Author: By Ben B. Chung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Movie Review | 4/25/2003 | See Source »

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