Word: trim
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...will save Harvard almost as much water as originally predicted while keeping students who just can’t part with their water pressure content. Showerheads, though, should not be the only way in which Harvard curbs its water use. We cannot help but wonder how else Harvard could trim water-use habits. The next frontier, however, seems obvious: cutting use of sprinklers, particularly in autumn. After all, if Harvard is going to ask its students to use less water, can’t it do the same with its lawns...
...only does yoga offer great benefit to their health, it's one of the few forms of exercise they can enjoy and stick to. Running, weight-lifting and calisthenics are not for everyone. And while it's true that yoga alone does not improve cardiovascular health, many practitioners are trim and have increased strength, flexibility and reduced stress. It requires great strength and a little sweat to hold those asanas (poses). Rhonea Williams-Dillard, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
...morning to do the actual constructing. She considers using pages from the Style section of the New York Times, but instead opts for old FM issues. One and a half hours later, she has completed the centerpiece of her outfit: a multi-ply newspaper skirt with mod duct tape trim. For a finishing touch, Morton decorates the skirt with FM logos and owls from October 4th issue: “The FM script is like how you label your product, as if it’s a designer signature,” she explains. “Luckily, I have...
...seen one or two comparisons of 3:10 to Yuma with Unforgiven. These are not entirely apt. Mangold's offering lacks the blackness and absurdity of Clint Eastwood's great film. It is more in the vein of Anthony Mann's westerns of the 1950s - trim, efficiently paced, full of briskly stated conflicts that edge up to the dark side, but never fully embrace it. That's quite all right. 3:10 to Yuma reminds us that well-made westerns - precisely because they are such a ritualized and conventionalized form - have an ability to isolate moral conflicts in spare, essentially...
...hide the deep differences that France and Europe have with America - and not just on Iraq. And it's hard to fully applaud his success in Europe's agreement on the simplified treaty when, elsewhere, Sarkozy sends the message to Germany and others that their work to trim deficits and reform economies aren...