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...would argue that regular exercise and weight loss are not good for your health, but results from a large study of women with heart problems suggest that sometimes it's better to be fit than thin. Active women, no matter how thin or fat, were much less likely to have a heart attack and other cardiac problems than women who didn't exercise, according to the Women's Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation. But weight does matter. Researchers in the ongoing Women's Health Study found that overweight and obese women--regardless of how regularly they exercised--were as much as nine...
Then, however, tension turns into genocide. And Rusesabagina turns from glorified houseboy into antiheroic hero. His hotel can offer hundreds of terrified Tutsi food, beds and the protection of a thin, blue-helmeted line of U.N. peacekeepers, commanded by Colonel Oliver (Nick Nolte). The big question is, Can the volatile local militia, eager to stamp out "cockroaches" (its name for the Tutsi), be kept...
...year-old High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV), as the humvee is officially known. With canvas doors and a skimpy skin of sheet metal, most humvees are designed to move small numbers of troops quickly. After a 1993 mine blast killed four U.S. soldiers in Somalia in their thin-skinned humvee, the Army began buying armored versions for deployment to hot spots like the Balkans. But neither the U.S. Army nor the Bush Administration fully embraced the vehicle until the Iraqi insurgency exploded. The Army originally thought it needed 235 armored humvees to help bring peace to Iraq. But shortly...
CityStep isn’t the only activity that has bonded Fee to others—she first met her boyfriend, John P. Blickstead ’06, through the On Thin Ice (OTI) improv comedy group...
...ones.” In his first play at Harvard, Docherty manages to make believable the idea of a quiet young man propositioning his best friend’s wife and his mother’s nurse in order to save the friend’s reputation. The tall, thin young man’s red-faced proposals “to make mad passionate love” to two separate women within the course of 30 minutes were unforgettable as was his portrayal of a character hopelessly devoted to his dear friend Mr. Willy...